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Samu Social Strike Ends After 57 Days With Protocol Securing Staff Protections

The agreement delivers shift safeguards, a 150-euro bonus and formal staff consultation while leaving Paris’s emergency shelter shortfall to be addressed in September state talks.

Overview

  • The strike was lifted after 57 days when staff mandated the CGT to sign a protocol on 18 August that formally ended the mobilisation and returned services toward normal.
  • The protocol requires staff to be consulted on major reorganisations, gives 115 call‑centre listeners a 45‑minute no‑call period at shift start and grants a 150‑euro suractivity bonus for listeners.
  • Prefectural authorities ordered the eviction of a camp at the Samu social site that had reached about 450 people, and a new camp of roughly 250 people now occupies the parvis of the 3rd‑arrondissement mairie.
  • Many camp residents refused temporary offers outside Paris because of ongoing administrative procedures, children’s schooling and work ties to the capital, leaving families without durable housing solutions.
  • The CGT says the deal is a partial win and has scheduled further strikes in September plus national social‑work meetings in October as it pushes the State to fund more shelter places and ease sector capacity shortages.