strikes, negotiation meetings … The subject of remuneration continues to wave companies, while directions and unions diverge on how to share the value.
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The scene was repeated in front of the Carrefour d’Antibes, Troyes, Limoges, Evreux, Alençon or Toulon hypermarkets, Saturday September 24: customers were greeted by leaflets, banners and employees on strike.
Obviously, these are not convinced by the latest proposals made by management, Thursday September 22, namely 2.5 % increase, 100 euros in purchasing power and extension of a discount on purchase. And this, after 1 % increase granted in November 2021, 1.3 % in February 2022, 1.5 % in July as well as 1,350 euros in profit and participation.
“It’s a real fed up! There is a huge turnover in our stores. Our working conditions are constantly deteriorating, testifies, of his hypermarket in Ollioules (Var), Nadia Ayad, Central delegate FO (majority). And we are offered 100 euros as a bonus? But we are not beggars! We are the second line! “She launches, in reference to the designation of these” essential “workers for Confines linked to COVVI-19.
This movement begins a capital week to take the pulse of the social climate. After the effervescence of the first half, where conflicts have multiplied in companies around wages, against the backdrop of inflation (5.9 % over a year in August), the start of the school year has so far proved rather calm, While the management of the energy prices flambé is again a front.
“money there is, in the boxes of PSA!”
However, whether they are employees of mass distribution, automotive or insurance, all agree that, for them, “the main subject remains purchasing power”. “Everyone only talks about that,” sums up Franck Théry, secretary general of the CGT at Stellantis (ex-PSA) in Hordain (North).
It was in this factory that the first jolts of mobilization occurred within the automotive group: Friday, September 16, several hundred workers, according to the CGT (several dozen, according to management), went on strike. A video watches them leaving their workstation and singing in chorus: “Money there has, in the boxes of PSA!” Since then, short setbacks have taken place in several factories of the group.
In the winter of 2021, at Stellantis, as with Renault or Michelin, the unions refused to sign management proposals during compulsory annual negotiations (NAO), legal framework for discussion on wages. The global envelope of 3.2 %, including 2.8 % general increase for workers, was deemed insufficient, despite 4,000 euros in profit -sharing. But Stellantis weighs 8 billion profits in the first half of 2022, up 34 % over a year.
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