This Tuesday, around 10 a.m., a union delegate from the H&M GBC logistics platform in Le Bourget (93), which the fashion giant announced the closure, tried to set himself on fire during a negotiation meeting. with management.

Released in full negotiation

Aged 39, this employee, for 18 years on the site and UNSA delegate, sprayed himself with gasoline on the parking lot of the site in an attempt to set himself on fire, reported several employees. In shock, colleagues mobilized on the picket line immediately came to help him. According to testimonies collected by our colleagues

from Le Parisien

, the emergency services intervened quickly on the scene to take care of the victim. He was transported to the Avicenne University Hospital in Bobigny for treatment. A colleague told AFP that he would have left the hospital at the end of the afternoon.

This union representative participated in a meeting with the site management as part of the job protection plan (PSE) opened after the announcement of the closure of the warehouse, the only logistics platform in France for the loan giant. -to wear.

During the discussions, he left the room and went outside, where he wanted to kill his life, explained Fatima Karim, CGT delegate.

"He is someone who has his head, who has always negotiated and, there, we are facing a leadership that provokes" by proposing only weak support measures, she said.

A closure despite rising profits

“We don't care about money.

The priority is the reclassification [of employees].

We want to keep our jobs, ”said the same union representative on Monday.

This father said he was tired by the strike launched on October 7 - which shut down the site - but anxious to continue the mobilization.

Despite sharply increasing profits exceeding pre-pandemic levels of Covid-19, Hennes and Mauritz (H&M) has announced that it wants to reorient its activity to adapt it to Internet sales.

H&M France explained last Friday that the closure of the Le Bourget site, which has around 150 employees, was the result of a "new organization of logistics flows" in the region.

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