2023-10-17 04:00:00
We also met with the Colas unions to get their vision of the site. They point to an extremely complex project on a technical level, but also to a particular structure within the Colas company. “There is not one, but Colas” explains Salvador Alonso Merino, CSC union representative. “There is Colas Rail France, Colas Route France, Colas Belgium etc., lots of players who don’t always talk to each other, sometimes have different plans and different teams. Sometimes there is confusion on the site. A team does work, the next day others arrive and don’t know what was done.” concluded the trade unionist.
An observation shared by a worker “one day, we arrive in an area and we see concrete blocks. We don’t know what they are so we break them, we roll over them, in short we destroyed everything. And in fact, we weren’t said, but we had to keep these blocks. So we were able to redo them all.” This type of situation would have happened several times, either due to lack of communication or because the plans were not good.
The fact that the company is French (the Belgian subsidiary has little presence in the project and everything is managed by French authorities) is also an element highlighted by several speakers. Not only does she not know the Liège soil and the Belgian institutional complexity, but in addition, certain managers would have arrived in Liège with a “sense of superiority” and demonstrated a certain “arrogance” towards companies and Belgian authorities.
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