Hello and welcome to this Brussels Nice Guide Video
My name is Dimitri and I've been a freelance guide in brussels
for about the last ten years
usually I speak about heritage, anecdotes,
history about Brussels
but today for a slightly longer video
I'm sorry you'll have to stay until the end
it will be a bit more serious, I'm going to talk about the work conditions
of the guides
at least one side about an event that just happened
I had the pleasure to work during
the first 6 months of 2018
as a freelance guide
at the House of European History
it's was really great
I really enjoyed working there.
go to visit the HEH, it's a great place
It was via a small local non-profit organization
to which the MHE outsourced the organization of visits
and who managed to allow us to bill
€ 100 for a 2h tour
no net salary eh, to bill
and then you have to remove a lot of money before it goes into your pocket
In Brussels it is a decent sum
correct without being stupendous
Then there was a change of provider
following a new, much larger public contract
from the European Parliament
that encompasses
a lot of services, including guided tours
it's about a few million euros on several years
events, trips etc...
it's the kind of conditions that
are tailor-made for larger companies, effectively excluding small operators
My colleagues and I
were contacted by ManPower
the new provider
to guide at the MHE
Except that conditions are a little less good
We were offered for a 2h tour
-58%!
compared to before
so you diminish to sum to BILL
we're not even taking about for an interim contract
a total freelance gig
-58%! and I ask myself
How is it that Manpower a big international company
with (they prentend so) a super expertise in management
is no match for a small non profit local association
and all this with Public money!
the taxes that we pay
How is Manpower able of such
ill management of public money
that's the issue here
besides
it is could be very annoying for the European Parliament
the HEH and the EU in general
the people who will work there, the professional guides having refused
to work at those conditions
will be or incompetent
or they will not give a f**k
so the people who will be
the most in touch
with the European Citizens
those workers will be the personification of this Europe of precariousness
Europe of profit against the workers
this Europe of big international companies
with all the money vanishing in fiscal paradise
against an citizen devoted Europe
We are approaching the european elections
and I think it's not a very clever idea
personnaly, it's ok, I know for sure
I will never again, and I regret it, guide at
at the HEH
it's over. It's ok, I guide in other places
other museums
it is painful, but not too much
But in a broader point of view
we are witnessing a sharp worsening
of the working conditions as a guide in Brussels
we have the pressure of the fake free tours
and their fiscal engineering
we have situations like this one
where big company spit at us
we have no recognition
from the regional authorities
a sort of contempt, we don't exist for them
even if we are constantly in contact with tourists
we're sort of ambassadors
of Brussels
I'm just wondering about those things
And I will ask you to help me, you must question
your representatives
you must broacast this video, share it
and tag the journalists and
all the people who could have
some impact on this issue
who could be interested by this issue
I'm totally aware
that we are not reversing the steam here
but I think it's could do dome good to put a bit of pressure
to force Manpower
to be accountable for the use
of public money, your money
my money, to us, the collectivity
If we don't try
we're sure it will not work
and even it doesn't work in this case
maybe it will create a tiny crack, a breach
that others could later exploit maybe later
in other circumstances
I thank you for your attention
and see you soon for other visits here in Brussels
goodbye
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