In the Paris region, two pickets in front of parcel sorting centers have been maintained for several weeks.
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Two and a half years after a nine-month conflict that resulted in the regularization of 27 undocumented employees who worked for Chronopost in Alfortville (Val-de-Marne) and from 47 from other companies to join the Piquet of Strike, the story repeats itself.
In front of the Alfortville Chronopost agency, about twenty undeveloped undocumented, joined by dozens of others, since December 7, 2021, have a picket, day and night. Another, about 80 people, including about sixty DPD workers (Dynamic Parcel Distribution), is in front of the site of this other subsidiary of the La Poste group, in Coudray-Montces (Essonne), since November 8, 2021. Their claim: get their regularization.
Most of the time, these workers used aliases (they take the papers of a family member or knowledge in good standing, often with the payment of a sum of money) to obtain missions of interim, especially at Derichebourg Interim. “Most DPD’s underscrews have worked for several months, or even two years for some, with interest contracts renewed from one week to another,” says Giorgio Stassi, Secretary of South PTT Essonne.
“I do not want to be treated like a slave”
Despite the cold and rain, despite the absence of positive signs on their possible regularization, they remain on the spot between two events, sleeping in fortune shelters, on the sidewalk. “I do not want to work without papers anymore. I do not want to be treated as a slave. I want my rights,” says Aboubacar Dembélé, a 29-year-old Malian, who has unloaded parcel trucks at Chronopost from March 2020 At December 2021. They are supported by the South-PT and Solidarity Trade Unions, by the Collective of Packaged Workers in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) as well as by several parties and organizations.
m. Dembéle tells what his daily life was. “On the Monday, I was made just for an hour, from 5:45 to 6:45, he remembers. Knowing that I put two thirty hours to go.” Then, from Tuesday to Saturday, he worked “at from 1 hour, or 2 hours, or 3 o’clock in the morning, up to 7 h 30 “. Salary: “From 700 to 800 euros.” He had to discharge the parcels of the trucks, sort them, put them on trolleys, then put them on rolling pads. All, in permanent stress. “The chef was all the time on my back, repeating,” Come on, “Come on,” says Dembélé. There was an emergency stop button on the carpets in case we were overwhelmed. “But take it. is risky. “I pressed once. The next day, I received an end-of-mission SMS.”
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