#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) France, OCL, Courant Alternatif: summer 2022: PEI employees, a colorful victory! - It can be done (The Redskins) (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 CA No. 321 mentioned the strike of PEI employees working at the Technocentre

Renault based in Guyancourt in the Yvelines (named TCR in this article). Thanks
to their unfailing motivation, the strike ended in victory on June 3. A look back
at an eventful month of May. ---- Threatened to lose at best 20% of their salary,
at worst their job, 80 cleaning workers opposed the multinational Renault and
PEI, a company of the T2MC group which is listed in the Top 10 of French cleaning
companies. On June 3, 2022, after a month of total and active strike action, the
representatives of the strikers and the management of PEI signed an
end-of-conflict protocol which meets a large part of the strikers' demands. This
protocol includes, among other things, the following points:

A voluntary departure plan from the TCR demanded by employees exhausted by years
of hard work and often exposed to very harmful products. These departures can
take place within the framework of a Collective Contractual Termination (RCC)
with supra-legal compensation of 20% or a voluntary transfer to the Paris region
(moving closer to his home, change for a better adaptation of his work time...)
A distribution of working hours for employees who will remain at the TCR to avoid
recourse to partial unemployment and the corresponding loss of salary.
The opening of negotiations to improve working conditions and adjust the workload
by increasing staff if necessary.
A new work organization for PEI employees who work at Renault Lardy (Essonne) to
put an end to partial unemployment and their obligation to work on several sites.
The end of partial unemployment for PEI employees who work in Renault factories.
Payment for strike days.
The commitment that there would be no sanctions for going on strikeNot bad is not
it? During this month of struggle, the PEI strikers gave us a great lesson in
courage and determination! The management of Renault, PEI, but also some Renault
unions (in particular FO) have such contempt for these shadow workers who are
100% immigrant that they are convinced that the strikers were manipulated. These
suits and ties are incapable of imagining that people who clean up their shit
without flinching, expose themselves to the risks of covid contamination in
almost general indifference have the niaque and the strength to make them bend.
This victory showed them, showed us that it's not only in the Old Testament or at
Disney that the little ones win against the big ones.

The struggle of TCR PEI employees in a few dates:
March 2020: 1st confinement and start of partial unemployment.
The management of PEI, probably at the request of Renault, imposed partial
unemployment on 80% of employees. While PEI agents paid the hourly minimum wage
were already struggling to make ends meet before the covid crisis, this
short-time working, to which is added the reduction in bonuses such as the
"basket bonus" significantly reduces the amounts collected at the end of the
month. The discontent among PEI staff began at this time.

Monday, April 11, 2022: The announced dismantling of the TCR... And another good
news.
Presentation to the CSSCT (Health, Safety and Working Conditions Commission) of
the proposed sale before the end of 2022 of the TCR real estate, which belongs to
the Renault Group through its subsidiary, Société Civile Immobilière Plateau de
Guyancourt. Thus, despite an unfavorable vote of 100% of the elected officials
during the CSE of 04/14 (an extremely rare occurrence), from the beginning of
2023, Renault will become the tenant of these premises which it brought out of
the ground in 1998. The project mentions that Renaut would only rent 76% of the
premises on January 1, 2025, the remaining 24% will be rented to other
companies... With this change of ownership and the disuse of the premises, what
will become of the employees? service providers PEI, Elior, Vestalia, Docaposte,
Samsic, Penelope etc.? At the end of the meeting, as if it were a point of
detail, Renault management announces to staff representatives that it has decided
to "put on standby" certain premises of the Technocentre every Friday. In
addition to the repercussions for Renault employees, the direct consequence is
the reduction in the number of working hours - and therefore wages - for the
service companies, mainly PEI for cleaning and Elior for self-catering (4 selfs
out of the 5 still in operation will be closed on Fridays). Obviously this
decision is unilateral and is not subject to consultation with elected officials.
Anyway, as we saw above, the vote in this type of body has no value. In addition
to the repercussions for Renault employees, the direct consequence is the
reduction in the number of working hours - and therefore wages - for the service
companies, mainly PEI for cleaning and Elior for self-catering (4 selfs out of
the 5 still in operation will be closed on Fridays). Obviously this decision is
unilateral and is not subject to consultation with elected officials. Anyway, as
we saw above, the vote in this type of body has no value. In addition to the
repercussions for Renault employees, the direct consequence is the reduction in
the number of working hours - and therefore wages - for the service companies,
mainly PEI for cleaning and Elior for self-catering (4 selfs out of the 5 still
in operation will be closed on Fridays). Obviously this decision is unilateral
and is not subject to consultation with elected officials. Anyway, as we saw
above, the vote in this type of body has no value. Obviously this decision is
unilateral and is not subject to consultation with elected officials. Anyway, as
we saw above, the vote in this type of body has no value. Obviously this decision
is unilateral and is not subject to consultation with elected officials. Anyway,
as we saw above, the vote in this type of body has no value.

Thursday, April 14: Contempt for service providers.
Official internal press release from the director of the Renault establishments
in Ile de France: "In order to adapt the operating costs of the facilities to the
drop in site attendance and to the economic context, the tertiary areas of
certain buildings on the Technocentre site will be standby on Fridays.[...]I am
aware that these closures may cause some inconvenience, but they are important to
contribute to the savings plan necessary for the Group's recovery. Translation:
once again, the service providers serve as an adjustment variable to optimize
Renault's cash flow... The "inconvenience" for the employees of PEI and Elior is
just the loss of approximately 20% of their salaries already very skinny... But
that does not count for this swordswoman.

Monday, April 25: Let's go!
First day of strike at the call of the PEI unions (FO, CFDT, CGT and SUD)
supported by SUD Renault. After 2 days of joyous uproar in the corridors and
offices of the TCR, the strikers suspended their movement when their management
affirmed that it would respond favorably to their demands
Monday, May 2: Feast of breaking the fast (Aïd el-Fitr).
You don't start a strike on a holiday... Yes, that's also the reality of the
cleaning sector...

Tuesday, May 3: The management of PEI has betrayed its commitments, the fight
resumes.
The management having gone back on its promises of the previous week during the
CSE (Social and Economic Committee), the employees gathered in the GA decided to
resume the indefinite strike. On this date, access to the site is still possible
for strikers but prohibited for elected PEI outside the site, which constitutes
an undeniable violation of trade union rights. For three days, the strikers once
again enlivened the TCR by circulating, joyful but determined, in the buildings
and self-service areas at mealtimes, occupying the main reception area, etc. They
and they also a little disturbed the formal visit of Mr. Senard, the chairman of
the board of directors of Renault. While the physical integrity of this gentleman
was not in danger, he was quickly exfiltrated... Hide this plebs that I cannot
see. On this occasion, the PEI strikers have penetrated into the holy of holies,
namely Design... which no Renault union has ever done (lesson number 1). Every
day, the continuation of the strike is put to the vote at general assemblies of
strikers more or less comparable to a strike committee - the Central Trade Union
Delegate (DSC) FO of PEI remaining the main animator of this movement.

Thursday, May 5: The strikers blocked.
1st day of deactivation of badges for PEI employees, including some non-strikers.
The strikers are somewhat taken aback, no longer able to address the occupants of
the TCR, on the whole quite benevolent in the face of this movement, nor to
continue their active strike on the ground. They and they gather on the
forecourt, opposite the main reception which is still open for visitors.

Friday, May 6: The "position war" begins.
The management has installed barriers 20 meters in front of the main reception.
The presence of the ushers and big arms solicited by the management of Renault
begins to expand. Appear a dog handler and cowboys other than those usually
present on the TCR; the latter being perhaps considered too close to the strikers
because they themselves fear for the sustainability of their jobs. The strikers
leave in procession on the ring road that surrounds the TCR, which no Renault
union has ever done (lesson number 2).

Monday, May 9: The "war of position" sets in.
The first scuffle between the strikers and the security resulted in the
resumption of the esplanade where the first "Tchep de strike" was shared in joy.
This friendly meal where we will discover flavors hitherto unknown to our
sanitized palates will be the first of a long series. First attempt at
intimidation by the police called by Renault. Surprisingly they are looking for
the secretary of SUD Renault TCR... But who could have given them his name? On
this date, the TCR's SM-TE union released a leaflet in support of the strikers.
Apart from SUD Renault, which fully and actively supported the strike and the
CGT, this will be the only other expression of solidarity from the Renault
unions. Neither FO nor the Renault CFDT supported the strikers who nevertheless
wore the same "colors". Uplifting.

Tuesday, May 10: Beginning of the movement war which will last until the end of
the strike.
Not easy for 80 strikers to block 19 pedestrian entrances and at least 4 vehicle
entrances spread over 150 hectares of land. He therefore engages in a game of cat
and mouse to prevent trucks from entering the site. One entrance is blocked, they
open another... Plans with "alternative routes" are distributed to truckers to
circumvent the pickets, however meager. At 80, the PEI strikers still gave
Renault a hard time on this site where approximately 11,000 Renault employees and
service providers work (lesson number 3).
Wednesday, May 11: PEI management meets with a delegation of strikers.
The latter ask: "No transfer, no dismissal, no loss of salary, a voluntary
departure plan. The management responds by recalling the diktat imposed by
Renault: Reduction of 3,942 hours of cleaning per month on the TCR, or 27.6% of
the current volume. This would result in 30 job cuts (22 full-time employees and
8 part-time out of a workforce of 130). With the people who work in other
establishments affected by the job cuts, it would be a total of between 60 and 80
PEI employees working on Renault sites in Ile-de-France who risk losing their jobs. .

Thursday, May 12: Hello, it's the constabulary!
3 bumps land on the picket in ceremonial attire (bulletproof vest and all the
rest). Called by the management of Renault, we understand whose skin the latter
wants when the condés again ask to speak to the secretary of SUD Renault TCR
whose name has been opportunely communicated to them and who has been granted the
status of "referent "... In short, the management of Renault, after having
condemned the entry of heavy goods vehicles (called PC4) for fear that the nasty
strikers would enter the TCR with a knife between their teeth, asked the police
to do clear this entrance which has become the rallying point of the struggling
employees of PEI. So that heavy goods vehicles can once again enter the site, the
police are threatening to bring in the CRS... Things are getting tense. immediate
AG of the strikers who, after memorable speeches by very determined employees,
they unanimously decide not to give in. " We loose nothing! The CRS never came,
zaï zaï zaï zaï...

Friday, May 13: Extraordinary CSE of PEI: Crocodile tears.
For the management of PEI, Renault is the bad guys in the case... This is not
entirely false, but when the bosses oppose all the requests of the delegation,
arguing millions of euros to be reimbursed over 9 years, in addition to the fact
that we know this old trick well, we are entitled to recall that PEI belongs to
T2MC, which prides itself on being in the TOP 10 of cleaning companies and whose
boss, Mr. Mohamed Tandert, drive a Maserati... So money, there is! Otherwise,

Tuesday, May 17: Renault employees, PEI, TCR or Lardy employees, all united!
Gathering on the Renault site in Lardy (Essonne) at the initiative of the CGT and
SUD Renault unions who are fighting for the sustainability of jobs on this site
with an uncertain future because of the "strategic choices" of Renault
management. Strong presence and speaking out by PEI strikers. On the TCR,
strikers maintain the picket line in front of PC4.

Monday, May 23: In Boulogne as at the TCR, security is overwhelmed.
The PEI strikers succeeded in penetrating Renault's head office located on Quai
Le Gallo in Boulogne Billancourt, which no Renault union had ever done (lesson
number 4). They have brought color and joy to this sad building where the future
of thousands of workers is at stake. It is not certain that this very symbolic
action influenced the management of Renault in any way, but this new challenge
has brought the strikers closer, certain of having carried out a real coup.
Renault would have lodged a complaint against this impromptu intrusion.
Obviously, who does the Boulogne police station want to "hear"? the secretary of
SUD Renault TCR of course. It is relentlessness. Thank you Renault management. At
TCR,

Tuesday, May 24: At the Cléon factory, young chefs play big.
About fifteen PEI strikers traveled to the Renault factory in Cléon (Seine
Maritime) where PEI is also present. They were able to enter the factory and were
warmly welcomed by the site's CGT Renault, which is used to supporting service
providers who are annoyed by their hierarchy. Less friendly was the reception of
the small Renault bosses who believed themselves invested with the mission of
protecting the self-service where the PEI strikers wanted to meet the people
working in this factory... These zealous guards were responsible for a stampede
that s ended with a fellow striker in the emergency room of Rouen hospital. There
is nothing like it to further strengthen the ties between the strikers. An attack
on one of us is an attack on all! Extremely rare, 5 CRS trucks entered the
factory premises. Management must have really shit in his pants.
Following this action, the CFE-CGC of Cléon distributed a particularly nauseating
leaflet denouncing "a disturbing 1st level of violence" and assuring its "support
for all the employees who tried to prevent people from outside the establishment
with undetermined intentions do not enter the workshops". Of course, the violence
denounced by these management watchdogs is not that of the rogue bosses or that
of the petty bosses who have struck a blow against peaceful strikers who are
mostly women
Wednesday, May 25: The PEI at the general meeting of shareholders.
Our comrades were not invited but they and they were invited. Obviously, as
proles in struggle are scary (especially when they are not direct descendants of
Clovis), there was the ad 'hoc police deployment to protect the little party of
these brave people who live on the backs of workers. The strikers remained on the
sidewalk, which gave rise to new memorable speeches by striking employees.

Monday, May 30: It's the turn of the management of PEI to shit in his pants.
This one, they did not see it coming: The descent of the strikers to the head
office of PEI in Morangis (Essonne). One more time: Thundering sound system,
colorful and joyful wanderings in the management offices and "Tchep de strike".
Even if this building is neither a customer site nor a place of production, it
would seem that the untimely visit of the strikers marked a turning point in the
fight because it was during this week that the management of PEI finished by
agreeing to work on an end-of-conflict protocol taking into account the
legitimate demands of the strikers.

Tuesday, May 31: PEI management brings in temporary workers from Adecco.
Obviously it's illegal but, although the management of Renault has tried to make
believe that this strike has no impact on the cleaning of the premises, the
photos taken in the buildings prove the contrary... It's a safe bet that Renault
, noting the many gaps in hygiene and cleanliness, forced PEI to do what was
necessary to make the impact of the strike invisible.

Wednesday, June 1: An extraordinary CSSCT, finally, after 3 reminders from SUD.
Renault management claims that there are 50 non-strikers out of 120 PEI
Technocentre employees, to which the RS de SUD replies that PEI has brought in
employees from other sites (Plessis, Boulogne. ) and temporary workers from
Adecco. While acknowledging that the state of cleanliness of the Technocentre has
deteriorated, Renault management affirms that the number of non-strikers would
ensure a minimum service. She refuses to negotiate directly with the strikers,
arguing that the strike is solely "the fault of PEI management, which does not
know how to manage its staff". The possibility of Renault reducing the number of
PEI employees at the Technocentre would be provided for in the commercial
contract between Renault and PEI, so the manufacturer considers that it has
nothing to reproach itself for.

Wednesday, June 1: At the 25th FO congress, Renault's DSC FO hit rock bottom!
Mariette Rih, Renault's Central FO Trade Union Delegate, had already sent the FO
activists from PEI who came to seek her support, telling them that Renault was
not the one to attack. but at PEI. She drove the point home publicly at this
convention. His intervention can be seen on the FO website (search for number
163). She approaches the subject of PEI at 7:07 and hammers: "Some exploit human
misery and distress and it is not necessarily those who are pointed out.» and
«Without complex, the management of PEI has never ceased to exploit its employees
and its trade unions by sending them to the front line to put pressure on Renault
in order to have its social plan financed by its principals. Clearly, when the
PEI strikers supported by SUD and the CGT attacked Renault, the guard dog bares
her fangs. It is truly the voice of its master that Renault's DSC FO has made
heard. No comment.

Thursday June 2 and Friday June 3: The management of PEI cracks, it rushes.
Thursday, negotiation meeting between the management of PEI and the
representatives of the strikers. The end-of-conflict protocol obtained is
presented to the strikers and put to the vote during the GA on Friday morning.
The protocol is accepted and the strike suspended. Short-term suspension as PEI
management rededicates and refuses to pay for strike days. Neither one nor two,
the employees in struggle immediately get back on the move, deceive the vigilance
of the guards, all enter the site, go to liven up the atmosphere in the only open
self-service and settle down in the main hall determined to occupy the land for
as long as necessary. We do not know if it was Renault that sounded the end of
the game and forced the management of PEI to do what was necessary to put an end
to this occupation; anyway, in the middle of the afternoon, PEI management
informs the DSC FO of PEI that it will respect the terms of the protocol proposed
the day before. It's victory! The strikers leave the site in procession to the
sound of the international, with a smile on their face and an outstretched fist.
The same evening, the end-of-conflict protocol was signed.

Tuesday, June 7: Head held high and tears of joy.
A great moment of emotion that this return to a yet exhausting work. For the PEI
strikers, this recovery marks the victorious end of an exemplary struggle, the
end of a parenthesis during which they and they shared the GAs, the decisions
submitted to the votes, the blockages, the occupations, the processions, the
dissemination of leaflets, collections, convivial meals, but also friction with
the Cerberes, moments of doubt, tension and sometimes demotivation... But this
recovery also marks the beginning of an unfailing friendship, of those which bind
comrades of struggle who have shared so much. Upon their arrival at their places
of work, several PEI activists were congratulated and even applauded by Renault
employees and other service providers.

The OCL has always affirmed that it is in struggles that convictions are born and
revolutionary practices take shape: Self-management, strike committee, direct
democracy, sovereign general assembly... FO of PEI and the elected officials of
PEI "above ground", affirm that "it is not a real strike committee" etc...
However, the daily GA was put in place from the start of the strike and decisions
were taken collectively, including the signing of the end-of-confit protocol. Of
which act. This month-long struggle brought together the PEI employees who knew
little about each other and rarely met because of their staggered schedules and
the scattering of their workplaces on this huge site. The only regret is that
this movement did not catch on and that the employees of the service companies
mentioned above did not cling to the movement when they should feel concerned.
But all is not lost as the PEI strikers have proven that you can still win
against rogue bosses. A seed has been planted, let's hope it bears fruit.

O Cangaceiro, June 30, 2022

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