French bus drivers to strike over too tight trousers

Bus drivers in Marseille announced on Friday they are to take strike action over restricted working conditions. Among their grievances, they don’t like “the quality, the colour or the fit” of their new trousers.

The employees of RTM, “Régie des transports de Marseille” are set to go on a 24-hour strike on June 3rd. They will walk out because they refuse to wear the trousers from their new uniforms. “I won’t be wearing them,” one bus-driver said. “The shirts are alright, but these pants are far too tight,” he added.



“We reject the bottom half of this uniform, which has the same colour as the Gendarmerie National,” CGT union leader Bernard Gargiolo said. The new lavender-coloured shirts that replace RTM’s old yellow number appear to have provoked few complaints.

For his part, the new uniform’s designer, Jonathan Charles, defended his creation. “People are saying they’ll look like clowns. Well, that was already the case with the old outfits,” he said.