Carrefour: employees mobilized against "social confinement"

The employees of the Carrefour group mobilized on Saturday throughout France, with strikes or demonstrations at the call of the CFDT and the CGT, to denounce a "social confinement", poor working conditions, and demand hirings and increases salaries.

In Liévin, in Pas-de-Calais, the employees led a "strike, with impactful filtering", indicated Philippe Hureau, CFDT delegate, who criticized "the lack of staff in the store".

"We are not given the means to satisfy customers. There is a lot of waiting at the checkout," he explained.

Customers stranded for more than a kilometer in Marseille

In front of the largest Carrefour in Marseille, in the northern districts, customers were stranded for more than a kilometer on Saturday morning, in a concert of horns, with the entrance to the car park hampered by carts lying on the ground and an organized filtering dam by the strikers.

"The store continues to run, but we try to dissuade customers as much as possible," said Fiona Agueni, student and cashier at the store.

In Val-de-Marne, three stores followed suit, in Ivry-sur-Seine, Villejuif and Charenton-le-Pont, while remaining open, according to the prefecture.

"Carrefour will pay 400 million euros to its shareholders, and only 200 euros gross (bonus) to its employees. This is unacceptable, especially in the conditions in which we work", with "aggressive customers", protested Betty, CFDT union delegate in Ivry-sur-Seine.

"The management despises us," protested his colleague Stéphane Desgranges, representing CGT.

"We have been open for a year, we fed people ...", he recalled.

"Today, (...) we leave the store open (...) but if the management does not hear us, we will take the next step," he warned.

Mobilizations everywhere in France

In Seine-Saint-Denis, two stores were mobilized, in Noisy-le-Grand and Aulnay-sous-Bois, "without consequences on the reception of customers", according to the prefecture.

In Etampes, according to the prefecture of Essonne, around forty employees gathered in the morning in a "calm and serene" atmosphere in the store parking lot.

The movement was also followed in Givors (Rhône), where the store was closed Saturday morning due to a strike.

In Dijon, a hundred demonstrators gathered at the call of the CFDT in front of a shopping center and in Quetigny, in the Dijon suburbs, the strike was followed at 50%, according to the CGT, cited by Le Bien Public.

In Annecy, employees of the Carrefour hypermarket "demonstrated in front of the store", according to the local CGT, and in Nice, two hypermarkets were affected by the movement, which won Monaco, where 70 of the 280 employees of the Carrefour hypermarket were on strike, according to Alexandra Oukdim, delegate of the Trade Union of Monaco.