Paris (AFP)
Industrial cadences, suffering at work, suicides: the table that La Poste is drawing a documentary magazine "Envoy Special" broadcast Thursday night (21:00) is very dark, to the point that the group refused to participate in the investigation.
"I contacted La Poste more than two months before the broadcast and I received a negative response," told AFP the journalist Pedro Brito Da Fonseca, author of this topic entitled "La Poste energized".
The first images show a group of postmen from the Hauts-de-Seine, then on strike for 15 months, entering night force last June in the headquarters of the group.
A "delictual action" that motivates the reaction of the group not to participate in a report adopting "an exclusively controversial and biased angle that leaves no prospect of an objective and balanced treatment," La Poste told AFP.
Beyond these first clashing images, the 37-minute documentary is particularly moving for its testimonials of postmen suffering from pain and those close to those who committed suicide.
The report details two suicides, that of Charles Griffond, 53, July 17, 2016, which leaves a letter called "letter of a desperate factor", and that of Paula Da Silva, October 24, 2018, after months of burn -out, calls for help and work stoppage.
In both cases, the relatives evoke an unbearable pressure. Employees, postmen and executives also testify to the "timed work" by opaque algorithms, "reorganizations every 18 or 24 months", taking anxiolytics to "hold".
Marc, a former executive, kept a list from 2008 to 2015 and noted that we are moving from the change of status of about twenty suicides a year to "30, 35 cases a year, almost doubling".
Another "shocked" executive reports an internal list of about 40 suicides or attempts in 2016.
Suicides at La Poste have not had the same media impact as France Telecom, reports the report, which provides an explanation with the confidences of a former press officer: according to her, the communication has developed a well-honed argument in the media, systematically questioning the employee's personal life or his inability to "take the train of transformation on the move".
This press secretary said she left the Post Office to "not spend (his) life playing gravediggers".
Most of the speakers testify the blurred face and the modified voice. "I had trouble making contact, there is a feeling of fear," said Pedro Brito Da Fonseca.
The malaise in La Poste has been denounced for several years by the unions, employees and doctors of the company's work.
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