Employees are demanding in particular "a salary increase and the tax-free Macron bonus", indicates the CGT.

For several weeks, staff representatives have been denouncing the poor working conditions in the group. 

Several warehouses of the Carrefour group, three according to the group's management, have been affected since Thursday morning by a hard blocking movement and a dozen others are disrupted by employees demanding wage increases, sources have learned. multiple.

Asked by AFP, the management of Carrefour evokes "three logistics sites blocked out of 23 last night".

These are the warehouses of Le Rheu, near Rennes, Allonnes, near Le Mans, and Sennecé-lès-Mâcon, which responded to a call from the CGT.

"There were a few walkouts at other sites in the morning," Carrefour added.

Employees demand "the tax-free Macron bonus"

"We are asking for a salary increase and also the tax-exempt Macron bonus," said Alain Mahé, CGT delegate (1st union in the Supply Chain within Carrefour, which employs around 7,000 people).

"Carrefour refuses to pay it while we have results of madness and we worked like sick people ... There may be breakages in stores, in the fresh, in the grocery store or in the brewery," he said.

"A dozen warehouses are disrupted, three of which are really blocked in which nothing goes in and nothing comes out, added Nathalie Denis, central FO delegate. In the others, employees disengage and this can disrupt the preparation of orders".

"It is a call for an indefinite strike so it must continue and we will then see the actions of management," said Arnaud Boyer, CFDT secretary of the CSEC Supply Chain.

A social discontent that has lasted for several weeks 

Carrefour has 23 warehouses in France, as well as the head office, which is also considered a logistics site.

This movement is part of a climate of social discontent in the group which has lasted for several weeks, like the strike movement and demonstrations which disrupted the operation of a hundred supermarkets on Saturday.

Employee representatives denounce the poor working conditions and demand wage increases, while employees have been particularly stressed and exposed since the start of the health crisis and that the group recorded excellent financial results in 2020.