WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, OCL CA #334 - Pay insubordination (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

Employees ---- Work resumed at Sonélog in Pontet (Vaucluse) on April 17,
2023: the strikers who demanded 1,000 euros finally obtained 800 euros
from the management of the electrical equipment company after a month of
conflict. The dismissal in July for serious misconduct of the CGT
delegate from Sonelog in Pontet was canceled by the regional labor
directorate on October 13. Hope for the 10 other employees fired in July
for the same reasons. ---- Around a hundred employees at the
Seb-Moulinex factory in Mayenne went on strike to demand better working
conditions and better pay in particular. This movement is interesting
because it was the employees themselves who launched the strike, the CGT
then piggybacked on it. Above all, all these employees want better
working conditions. After two days of strike and long negotiations, an
agreement on wages was reached with management.

Listeners to the toll-free number 3020 concerning school bullying are
worried about their future, some of the employees of the Ile-de-France
School of Parents and Educators association (which deals with 3020) have
gone on strike. 3020 should disappear, since Prime Minister Elisabeth
Borne announced that 3018 would become the only listening platform for
school bullying. The strike mainly concerns wage demands, and it was not
originally linked to the announcement of a single platform. Despite the
strike, the 3020 continued to operate.

Tractor production at the Claas factory in Le Mans has been disrupted
since October 10, 2023. At the call of the CGT, some of the workers
walked out on several occasions. The union is demanding a 7% increase
for all 800 employees at the Sarthe site.

Employees of the Thau basin dialysis center, in Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert
(Hérault), went on strike for five days. They asked for an increase in
their meal vouchers from 7 to 9 euros, the enhancement of seniority, an
increase in salary and the return of the 13th month. They won their case
for the meal vouchers and an end-of-year bonus of 1,000 euros net. For
the rest, it is referred to the next annual negotiations.

Around forty maintenance workers from the Onet company who do part of
the cleaning at the Lapeyronie University Hospital in Montpellier went
on indefinite strike on September 15. They are demanding better salary
and a bonus equivalent to the 13th month, as well as better working
conditions. What broke the camel's back was the implementation of an
application that must be checked as soon as a room has been cleaned.

Strike in HOLLYWOOD (continued)
End of the writers' strike. The leaders of the Writers Guild of America
(WGA), the screenwriters' union, approved on September 26 the recent
salary agreement concluded with the studios and recorded the return to
activity of their members. The screenwriters approved by vote the
agreement (which must also regulate the use of artificial intelligence)
with the studios, but the actors, stuntmen and dancers have, for their
part, still not found an agreement.

Strike in the AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY in the UNITED STATES (continued)
Joe Biden came to join the picket line of striking auto workers in
Michigan, the epicenter of an unprecedented movement affecting three
giants of the sector: General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. The objective
was above all to pull the rug out from under Donald Trump...
Some 4,000 employees of heavy-duty truck manufacturer Mack Trucks have
decided to join the movement launched in mid-September in the American
automobile industry, announced the United Auto Workers (UAW) union. They
join the 25,000 workers of the "Big Three", the three major
manufacturers in the United States. As part of the renegotiation of
collective agreements, the union organization supports demands for wage
increases and improved working conditions. A subsidiary of Swedish
Volvo, Mack Trucks operates two factories in the eastern United States,
in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Lots of information on laborsolidarity.org.

Make our operations pay as much as possible
Valdunes: The 340 employees of Trith-Saint-Léger and Leffrincoucke, on
indefinite strike since September 1 to save their two factories, have
suspended the movement. What better way to study the CGT consortium
project with Alstom and SNCF.

A global economy plan was announced to employees of the newspaper Le
Dauphiné Libération. Among the measures: the possible relocation of the
agency from Grenoble and Voiron to Veurey-Voroize, where the
headquarters is located. This relocation has not yet been confirmed... A
sweeping operation to demand the cancellation of the agency relocation
project took place in Veurey.

Around fifty employees of Arair, a subsidiary of Air Liquide,
demonstrated in Tours. A mobilization to protest against Air Liquide's
job protection plan (PSE), which provides for a thousand layoffs in
France. This concerns around fifty jobs in Tours. For the CGT, this is a
"stock market" dismissal to make it more profitable. Employees are now
demanding a dignified departure.

Employees of ORKYN, a subsidiary of Air Liquide, held a strike in front
of the Atton factory, near Pont-à-Mousson in Lorraine. A day of strike
to denounce the restructuring plan of the parent company. Around thirty
jobs would be threatened. Orkyn, which manufactures oxygen, currently
employs around fifty people.

Automobile: subcontractor Marelli will close two of its factories and
nearly 300 employees will lose their jobs - 167 in Argentan (in Orne)
and 125 in Saint-Julien-du-Sault (in Yonne). Management indicated to
these employees that it was a project to relocate production to Slovakia.
On October 13, negotiations on the PES began. The employees unanimously
decided to renew the strike started on the 10th, at least until today.
Michelin-starred chef Arnaud Viel, whose restaurant is located in
Argentan, reacted strongly to the new economic blow hitting this city
with the proposed closure of Marelli, and the PS mayor appealed to the
government.

It has now been six weeks since some of the 721 employees of Nestlé
Waters have been on strike, following the announcement made last May by
management that it wanted to eliminate 171 positions in its two
factories in Vittel and Contrexéville. The Nestlé Waters union is
calling on the Minister of Labor to try to avoid redundancies in the
social plan, which therefore threatens a quarter of the workforce in
these factories.

The 130 employees of Unterland Metal, formerly Clestra, are not giving
up. Despite the announcement of the liquidation of their company, they
continue to gather in front of the Illkirch factory (Bas-Rhin). After
three months of strike, they now want to make themselves heard by
management in the context of negotiations on severance pay. The CGT also
announces that it has contacted lawyers to attempt legal action against
the company's managers. The union and many employees want recognition
that the objective of Jestia, which took over Clestra in October 2022,
was from the start to dismantle the group.

Since October 3, the 178 employees of the ZF Mecacentre company, in
Saint-Etienne, have stopped work and occupied the site. Their company
has been in receivership since July and all attempts at recovery have
failed. The factory could therefore be placed in liquidation on October
25. Until this deadline, employees are demanding supralegal departure
bonuses: 40,000 euros per person and 2,000 euros per year of seniority,
or an envelope of 13.8 million euros. For the moment, the group's German
management is offering 5 million euros.

The elected staff of Papeteries de Condat (Dordogne) signed the social
plan negotiated with Lecta management. If the PSE is validated by the
State, 177 jobs will be eliminated and production line 4 will
permanently close.
A signature to avoid a "unilateral plan": according to the unions, all
dismissed employees leave with a check for at least 6,000 euros as well
as an additional 400 euros per year spent in the company. Aid of 15,000
euros will be financed by the company for all those who wish to start
their business, 10,000 euros for a micro-enterprise.

Two Nupes elected officials from Dordogne sent an open letter to the
publishing houses Flammarion, Larousse, Glénat and Hachette, which buy
double coated paper from Papeteries de Condat to print their coffee
table books. They ask them to boycott the Lecta group which is stopping
the production of coated paper in Dordogne to relocate it to Spain and
Italy.
Roland Lescure arrived at Le Lardin to meet the employees of Papeteries
de Condat who had just experienced the closure of one of the two
production lines. The Minister of Industry was greeted by angry employees.

Strike at the Calcia cement factory in Ranville: employees "worried"
about "breathed dust"
Employees of the cement factory located north of Caen joined the
movement launched 22 days ago in another group factory, located in
Marne. At the heart of the discontent, the lack of maintenance of cement
plants. The union is asking for the return of outside companies to
regularly carry out the necessary cleaning; and he is waiting, to
continue the movement, to know whether the employees of Marne, taken to
court, will be convicted or not after their three weeks of strike.

A procedure initiated against the Emmaüs communities of
Saint-André-lez-Lille and Grande - Synthe. Accused by undocumented
workers of imposing undignified working conditions, two Emmaüs
communities in the North are the subject of a procedure which could lead
to their exclusion from the movement. They have crossed a "red line"
contrary to the values of Emmaüs France, says management.

End of the strike at the territorial center of Martinique, a memorandum
of understanding is signed.
In this structure which welcomes children in difficulty, the staff
involved denounced dysfunctions to the detriment of the children. After
7 hours of negotiations, the end of the conflict was declared. The
strikers obtained satisfaction on numerous demands.
 From a union source, the main points of the agreement are as follows:
* Upgrading of stocks of school materials,
*Purchases of beds and mattresses,
*Creation of school assistant positions and strengthening of partnership
with school support associations,
*Opening of competitive examinations for the title of social worker,
*Hiring two nurses
*Reconditioning of the vehicle fleet,
*Urgent meeting with the rectorate to ensure the schooling of all placed
children,
*Strengthening host families.

35 employees of the GIHP (Group for the integration of the physically
disabled) Occitanie LR, an association which helps disabled people, went
on strike this Friday to denounce their working conditions and demand an
increase in their salaries. Management promises them an end-of-year
bonus without specifying the amount.

Le Mans postmen on strike against the elimination of routes by La Poste
management
Around twenty tours have been canceled since September 19. Management
anticipates a possible drop in mail delivery in 2024, but in fact the
postmen note that this measure lengthens other rounds.

Hundreds of undocumented workers have launched a strike movement
coordinated mainly by the CGT in more than 30 companies in Ile-de-France
to denounce their "overexploitation" and demand their regularization.
For the moment, they have obtained administrative documents (CERFA,
certificates of concordance). This can help in compiling files to be
submitted to the prefecture. But we are still far from the victorious
regularizations announced by some...

Strike in Orange in Martinique, Guadeloupe and Guyana for "discomfort
and harassment", according to the inter-union.
The CDMT, FO, SUD, UTG, CGT and CGTM P&T have filed an indefinite strike
notice starting October 18. All the staff of the Technical Directorate
of Martinique, Guadeloupe and Guyana denounce a "situation of unease".
According to the unions again, no concrete action has been put in place
to take into account "the discomfort and harassment" of which "around
thirty employees have been victims for three years".

Pay insubordination, 10/20/23
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