After spending eight months on strike over the past two years, the chambermaids at the Ibis des Batignolles hotel, the group's second largest establishment in Europe, have obtained salary increases and a readjustment of their work pace.
It's a long fight from which they come out exhausted but happy.
The fifty chambermaids at the Ibis des Batignolles hotel in Paris (Accor group) won their case against their employer, the subcontractor STN.
After 23 months of struggle, eight of which were on strike, they now have the same rights and benefits as employees of the Ibis hotel company.
These chambermaids denounced the frenetic pace to which they were subjected: the room cleaning in just 15 minutes and the non-payment of their overtime.
They now get a salary increase: 100 euros more per month.
But also lunch box bonuses and above all a drop in their work rate.
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A significant drop in work rates
"We are dealing with a historic struggle of chambermaids against the STN group", welcomes Europe 1 Kandi Tiziri, of the CGT.
“At the start of this mobilization, the chambermaids had a rate of three and a half rooms per hour, they now go to three rooms per hour, and from an average of 140 rooms to 80 rooms to be controlled. quite significant. "
Employees, who have been on short-time work since the first confinement in March 2020, are now waiting to know the date of their resumption of work at the second largest Ibis in France and Europe, after that of Roissy-Charles-de airport. -Gaulle.