The CGT claims an increase in wages of 300 euros. The striking employees also claim a seniority premium and better care for sick leave.
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Sitted in camping armchairs and on plastic cans, they raise their arms and shout “Thank you!” When a bus driver or firefighters hide as a sign of support by passing in front of their piclet installed near the ‘Entrance to the Campanile Hotel in Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine) and the nearby first class hotel who have the same staff. “Salary mistreatment”, “non-compliance with working conditions”, can be read on their banner.
These are chambermaid women, liners, versatile employees, etc., twenty-four strike employees out of sixties, according to the CGT (20 % to 30 % of the workforce, according to management), Who are present six days a week, since… May 26. A movement launched by the prestigious and economic CGT-Hôtels (CGT-HPE) and coordinated with the strikers of two other establishments of the Louvre Hotels group: the Campanile de Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine) and the Golden Tulip Villa Massalia de Marseille .
No negotiation is underway. “We feel that we are considered less than nothing,” denounces Ali Djoumoi, elected CGT-HPE to the Social and Economic Committee (CSE), in Suresnes. In 2012, a 28-day strike had allowed the internalization of cleaning employees used by a subcontractor, which had made oil stain in other hotels.
“I stop Only when I suffer too much “
Tuesday, July 19, the strikers of the three sites organize a rally in front of the Campanile La Villette, in Paris, to “show [their] strength and [their] solidarity”, but also bail out their “strike box”, specifies Fouad Slimani, CGT-HPE union delegate at the Central CSE of Louvre Hotels. Rachel Kéké, the deputy NUPPES and ex-winned CGT-HPE at the Ibis Batignolles hotel, in Paris, is expected.
Laura Benoumechiara, director of human resources at Louvre Hotels, evokes “a minority strike in the group”, which has nearly two hundred establishments. Their flagship claim: a salary increase of 300 euros net, carried by the CGT at the national level, as well as a premium of seniority and a better treatment of sick leave.
“Some employees who suffer from the back do not take their sick leave, because often daily allowances are paid with fifteen days or a month late”, underlines an employee of the Campanile de Gennevilliers. “Four years ago, pulling the big bags of dirty towels, I made a muscle tear on the hip, testifies a linen. The doctor had offered me a stop, which I refused. I stop Only when I suffer too much. “A colleague, first maid (she can replace the housekeeper) has” a diabetes problem with insulin. The doctor wanted to stop me, because I was very tired, my tension was too high. I refused, remembering that in 2019, when I was hospitalized for three weeks, I did not have enough to pay the rent next. I had to ask for help. “
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