A strike is planned for Monday in medical biology laboratories, called by the sector's representative unions. The message is clear. On France Inter radio, the CGT union said it expects a mobilization fueled by working conditions that have deteriorated since the health crisis, when Covid testing pushed the machines to full capacity. "The workers have had enough," declared Murielle Morand of the FNIC CGT union, describing a disrupted organization with long shifts, schedules deemed untenable, and teams sometimes working "seven days a week" or even "24 hours a day." The setting, however, remains unchanged: that of a discreet but essential, everyday service, where the demands are ever greater, ever more demanding.
Production rates are rising, but wages are stagnant.
Behind this strike lies a sector-wide mechanism that is tightening the screws. The CGT union points to "an increase in work pace and forced relocations," with site changes imposed within a single day, and denounces a "toxic management" characterized by omnipresent "hierarchical constraints." At the same time, the landscape has become concentrated around large groups, sites are merging, technical platforms are being streamlined, and the national health insurance system, the main funder, is pushing for cost control as volumes fall after the peak of Covid testing and procedure fees remain under pressure. At the end of the chain, wages are stagnating; "salaries haven't increased for years," according to the union representative, to the point of seeing the emergence of "working poor" in professions that are nonetheless regulated… and the entire attractiveness of medical biology risks quietly eroding.
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