France: Carrefour employees mobilized against degraded working conditions

Demonstration of employees in the Ivry-sur-Seine branch, at the gates of Paris, as part of a national day of protest for better working conditions on April 3, 2021. AFP - THOMAS COEX

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Carrefour employees mobilized this Saturday across France to alert on degraded working conditions and demand hiring and wage increases. 

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For more than a year that the health crisis has lasted, second-line workers who are Carrefour employees have not been idle.

Especially since, despite the absences caused by the devastation of the Covid, there were not enough hires to compensate them.

This Saturday, they therefore mobilized at the call of the CFDT and CGT unions.

In the Bouches-du-Rhône, where the movement has been well followed, the entry of customers by car has been greatly slowed down in front of the largest Carrefour store in Marseille.

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 In fact, the workload is constantly increasing and Carrefour does not invest in work tools to facilitate tasks either.

There is a lack of pallet pullers, the tasks are often boring and repetitive and there are fewer and fewer people to do them,

 ”laments Yohann Nezri, CGT delegate at Carrefour Le Merlan in the 14th arrondissement of Marseille.

Meanwhile, reorganization programs continue.

This is the case with the very controversial switch from stores to rental management, in other words the transfer of their management to third parties.

With heavy social consequences according to the CGT.

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These are rogue bosses who further degrade working conditions, who have a very aggressive management,"

explains a trade unionist.

 Salaries automatically go down because we are no longer part of a large group so we no longer have the collective agreement.

The advantages that we had until today, we no longer have them.

Many layoffs occurred immediately after the leases.

Carrefour proceeds in a way to a disguised dismissal plan by passing its stores one by one under lease-management. 

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Union actions will continue.

Next meeting next Thursday in Paris in front of the headquarters of Medef, the employers' union.

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