No to withdrawing leave in the name of confinement. Employees of the factory of the Canadian railway manufacturer Bombardier of Crespin (North) blocked Monday morning the arrival of spare parts, in protest against the management's proposal to work one more week to "catch up" with the closure during the confinement.
"We proposed in CSE on Friday a solution to make up for the closure for two months, to work the last week of July, which would be paid the equivalent of two weeks, plus an exceptional bonus of 200 euros," reported management, "Which would deliver an Ile-de-France and a Régio 2N in addition".
Uncompensated partial unemployment
Stopped in mid-March, production resumed on May 11. During the confinement, the management did not compensate for the 16% of wages lost for workers put on partial unemployment.
"We are asked to make efforts to save the accounts of a future ex-employer," said Karim Khatabi, the factory's southern delegate, speaking "on behalf of the inter-union". According to Pascal Lussiez, CFDT delegate, employees would actually lose two weeks of rest, working on their RTTs, which would be paid instead of being asked.
The Crespin factory, opened almost thirty years ago, is today the leading industrial rail site in France, with 1,500 employees and around 400 to 500 temporary workers. It achieved a turnover of 813 million euros last year and its order books are full.
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