A-Infos (en) France, OCL CA #337 - Pay insubordination 337 (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

There is no "confectioners' truce" for the class struggle. Salaries, 
working conditions - including management - and also making redundancy 
plans pay as much as possible are still relevant. Whenever possible, it 
is useful and necessary to take the time to meet the pickets. And to see 
with those first concerned what concrete solidarity is possible. ---- 
Since December 26, staff at Mont Saint-Michel Abbey (Manche) have been 
on strike to obtain better working conditions. On December 28, guided 
tours did not take place, but entry was free for visitors.
Ticket office staff want better working conditions, salary increases and 
additional hires.
An agreement was obtained which involves maintaining and replacing the 
current workforce and the creation of two additional positions: one in 
the abbey shop, the other for the work of technical agent. The unions 
also obtained a rebalancing of salary differences with 50% of the value 
sharing bonus to certain agents.
It's official: the prefect of the North has announced the closure of the 
Emmaus community of Saint-André, as of January 3, 2024, due to anomalies 
concerning the security of the building. The question of rehousing 
workers is still unresolved. The prefect asks management to ensure their 
rehousing. For undocumented workers, there is no question of ending the 
strike until they have won their case. This is in reference to the 
promise made by the management of Emmaüs Saint-André, promising 
residence permits once three years of work have been completed.

A strike picket has been set up since Friday January 12 in front of the 
Teisseire site in Crolles, in Grésivaudan (Isère) - the site also houses 
the headquarters of the syrup manufacturer -. Factory employees complain 
of management that is considered "brutal".

90% of employees at the Bergerac (Dordogne) and Agen (Lot-et-Garonne) 
sites of Inéo, a GRDF subcontractor, were on strike on January 10. They 
criticize their management for new schedules and holidays imposed in the 
summer.

Some of the employees of the MSSA chemical products factory in 
Pomblière-Saint-Marcel (Savoie) went on strike on January 5 to denounce 
unworthy working conditions.
They camp in front of the gates of MSSA Métaux Spéciaux. Around sixty 
employees started a strike to raise awareness of the glaring safety 
problems at the chemical plant. The Force Ouvrière union has recorded 
around fifty accidents in 2023, some of which are very serious, with 
workers seriously burned and hospitalized in Lyon. The employees held up 
images of the victims. They are unbearable, especially those of their 
colleagues burned by lithium or sodium.

Since January 9, the SEMOP Agglo'bus transport network (the only urban 
transport network in Guyana) has been suspended. The agents are on 
strike. They denounce the absence of an emergency button in the new 
buses, "too many" sanctions against drivers and the lack of social 
dialogue. These are demands that have been on the table for years.

This is the first time that employees of the Free operator have been on 
strike in Reunion. They denounce in particular poor working conditions. 
Of the 18 stores that the telephone operator has in the department, only 
two were open on December 21, 2023. The cause of this frustration: 
"unjustified mobility", according to the Sud Télécom Réunion Mayotte 
union. After two days of strike, an agreement was reached on the 23rd 
between the employees part of the commercial force of the operator Free 
and the company's management.

Around sixty Valdunes employees from the Leffrinckoucke and 
Trith-Saint-Léger sites gathered on January 17 in front of the 
Lille-Métropole commercial court. Several deputies also made the trip. 
As a reminder, the Valdunes factory is the last in France to manufacture 
train wheels and axles. It has around 320 employees spread between a 
forge in Leffrinckoucke, near Dunkirk, and Trith-Saint-Léger, near 
Valenciennes, where wheels and axles are manufactured.

A strike began on January 17 at the logistics site of the furniture 
brand Conforama, the Saint-Georges-d'Espéranche site in Isère, as part 
of a reorganization which will lead to the closure of the warehouse and 
the elimination of 78 positions.
The objective is to "leave as dignified as possible". Two meetings are 
planned to discuss the consequences, compensation and possible 
reclassifications.

A large part of the 220 employees of the aeronautical branch of Air 
Liquide in Sassenage walked off the job on January 16 in order to obtain 
better departure conditions for the Safran group, to which their 
activity was sold.
It is the conditions of the transfer that pose a problem. For the CFDT, 
"for 2024 the loss amounts to around 1,400 euros of contribution" in 
terms of participation, and employees, "especially the most modest", 
will lose the advantages of a CE "very active on the site of Sassenage. 
On the other hand, the management would only offer "1000 euros gross 
arrival bonus", a "departure" bonus in fact, or a "transfer". Whatever 
the name, "the account is not there", for the CGT. It was really an 
immediate concern and "the feeling of being unappreciated" which, 
according to her, pushed the employees to walk off the job.

End of strike at Alstom Belfort. The unions signed an agreement with 
management on January 12, putting an end to the movement that began 
three days earlier. They were protesting against the reduction in the 
number of RTTs, from 23 to 12, for certain workers and technicians. 295 
employees were affected in total.
Negotiations opened on January 17 on the issue of RTT. "We must not 
deceive ourselves, we will not find 23 days, but we can still hope to 
have more than 12," believes the CFE/CGC union delegate. He also 
welcomes the opening of negotiations on time slots and "a bonus of 100 
euros for all people who work at the Belfort factory", workers or 
technicians.
The unions nevertheless say they are ready to resume the strike and 
actions if the discussions are not satisfactory.

Tango agents demanded the maintenance of their achievements within the 
framework of the next transport market in Nîmes Métropole. During a 
first strike on December 16, all urban lines did not run all day.
Since January 8, 2024, Tango network bus drivers have been off duty once 
a day from 7:15 a.m. to 8:15 a.m.
The inter-union demands that the Agglomerate make written commitments on 
maintaining its social achievements while the name of the future 
delegate will be known on February 26.
On January 15, the inter-union met the president of the Nîmes 
metropolitan area and his chief of staff. "We contacted the two 
operators still in the running for the public service delegation. We 
asked them to provide a document which would guarantee our social pact 
and the current subcontracting volume which is 50%. RATP and Kéolis 
accepted this approach" affirms the CFDT union delegate. The strike is 
therefore suspended from January 17 and, once this written document has 
been received, the inter-union announces that it will definitively stop 
the social movement.

Around a hundred Recipharm employees, the equivalent of almost half of 
the site's workforce, strolled on January 11 in the streets of Monts, 
south of Tours. A march organized almost two months after the 
announcement of the closure of the site planned for mid-2025.
The aim of this approach was to show the determination of employees to 
maintain pressure so that Recipharm and the government find a buyer. The 
employees are demanding from the pharmaceutical group an official 
document ensuring the maintenance of all salaries until the resumption, 
or failing that the closure planned for 2025.

A strong mobilization Friday morning, December 22 in the streets of Gaël 
(Ille-et-Vilaine), a small town of 1,600 inhabitants on the borders of 
Morbihan and Côtes d'Armor. Around 150 people, local elected officials 
and employees of the Easydis platform, a subsidiary of Casino, marched 
through the streets from the warehouse to the town hall. A staff walkout 
took place at the same time. This platform, the only one in the west for 
Casino, employs 200 people. While the stores of the mass distribution 
company, which is drowning in debt, are in the process of being bought 
out, the future of the platform is very uncertain.

An unexpected strike by French employees of Eurotunnel, the company 
managing the Channel Tunnel, caused the temporary closure of the work on 
Thursday December 21. Many trains have been canceled. The negotiations 
between the unions and the management of the company, regarding a bonus, 
were "bearing results", according to the inter-union association. Work 
therefore gradually resumed at the start of the evening, resuming in a 
tense climate after three weeks of strike at ArcelorMittal Dunkirk. The 
strikers did not win their case in the annual salary negotiations, at a 
time when resignations are increasing at the steel giant.

Employees of the Center Pompidou Beauboug extend the strike notice until 
February 15, 2024. The social movement, which started on October 16, 
2023, hardened, leading to the complete closure of the public 
establishment from December 23 to January 5 and the doors remained 
closed until Sunday January 7.

...Here in the UK we have seen the biggest wave of strikes in decades, 
with hundreds of thousands of people involved in industrial action, many 
for the first time. Yet virtually all of these strikes ended in defeats 
and in wage agreements that were still below the rate of inflation. The 
unions have clearly failed to keep their promises, actively sabotaging 
the struggles. One sign of hope was the action of oil rig workers in the 
North Sea. They organized a strike committee, independent of union 
structures, and carried out two wildcat strikes on 19 platforms. This 
bore fruit, with the conclusion of new collective bargaining last 
December. Unions tried to dissuade workers from taking wild action, and 
then, usually, claimed victory! North Sea workers have provided a 
shining example of how strikes can be carried out successfully. These 
lessons must be heeded by all workers who enter into struggle. They must 
rely on themselves and create their own independent organizations such 
as strike committees and mass assemblies. (Communist Anarchist Group of 
Great Britain).

Germany: A three-day rail strike and angry farmers have brought the 
country to a standstill. Train drivers were called to strike from 
January 10 to 12 evening over their salaries and working hours, at the 
call of the GDL union, after the failure of negotiations with the public 
operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) . The DB had planned "massive" disruptions, 
recommending travelers to "avoid all unnecessary travel" during the strike.
Travelers hoping to fall back on the car are also disappointed. Since 
Monday January 8, thousands of farmers have been protesting against the 
government's agricultural policy. Convoys of tractors are blocking 
highway entrances across the country. Farmers have been expressing their 
anger since December against the government's decision to cut subsidies 
to the sector due to a call to order from constitutional judges over 
Germany's strict budgetary rules.

Salary Insubordination 20 01 2024

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