Val-de-Marne The strikers want a rise in wages and protest against the summons to justice of around thirty employees for a strike day
The Carrefour store de Bercy 2 (archives). — IAFRATE PATRICK
A social movement shakes Bercy 2. About 170 employees of the large distribution occupied Wednesday evening this shopping center and a Carrefour store located in Paris. Charenton-le-Pont, in Val-de-Marne, to demand wage increases and support employees “submitted to court” de Créteil for their strike, according to a CGT Commerce official.
“Bercy 2 shopping center: the employees have decided to to occupy it all night,” on social networks by CGT Commerce et Services. The occupation began Wednesday morning around 10 a.m. and focused on up to more than 500 retail employees, according to Amar Lagha, secretary general of the federation.
A general meeting this Thursday in ; 09 hours
This action is part of a broader context of strikes and occupations of sites aimed at obtain a minimum wage of 2,000 euros per month. “The only way to be heard today is to block the economy,” the trade unionist while the employees must decide this Thursday at 9 a.m., during a general meeting, if they wish to continue the movement.
The union chose this store in particular because, according to Amar Lagha, around 30 employees were “Subpoenaed in court” of Créteil by the new manager (a franchisee) for a day of strike organized last week. It’s “denounce the consequences of leasing-management” and “reaffirm that no one can silence us,” this “very strong repression” which followed a “very pacifist” movement.
The development of rental management
Since the arrival in headed by Alexandre Bompard in 2017, the Carrefour group puts dozens of stores under lease-management every year in order, according to him, to revive the business. and preserve jobs, while the unions denounce a social disaster that does not say its name. Lease management is a form of franchise in which the store manager does not own the business, which therefore continues to operate. belong to; Crossroads.