A-Infos (en) France, OCL CA #337 - A workers' strike that has lasted for 2 years (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

A workers' strike[1]which marked its 2nd anniversary[2], on December 7, 
2023 in front of the Prefecture of Créteil (94) should make the 
headlines of all the union, revolutionary, left-wing press, etc. The 
undocumented workers of Chronopost, but also of many other 
subcontracting companies present on the strike picket in Alfortville, 
spared no effort... Turned against the slavers of modern times, to 
extract here administrative documents, unpaid pay, etc. But also more 
global struggles against the pension counter-reform, against the Asylum 
Immigration law, etc. This struggle is self-organized by those primarily 
concerned, with real local union, association and political support[3]. 
These comrades remind us of a slogan that is too often forgotten: FRENCH 
IMMIGRANTS, SAME BOSS SAME FIGHT!

Since the end of October 2021, three strikes by undocumented workers 
have started successively. They installed pickets in front of their 
companies: the DPD platform (subsidiary of La Poste) in 
Coudray-Montceaux, the Chronopost agency in Alfortville and the RSI 
interim agency in Gennevilliers. The main demand in this labor conflict 
is the regularization of all the workers fighting on these three pickets 
within the framework of collective negotiation.
For years, these temporary workers have suffered system-wide 
overexploitation by companies seeking workers without permits due to the 
extreme deterioration of the working conditions that they have imposed 
on their employees.
On the RSI side (building subcontracting company), the Nanterre 
prefecture (92) regularized 18 workers last August and refused all other 
requests. It should be noted that a year before, Darmanin had negotiated 
a meeting with the PCF deputy from Gennevilliers and for the RSI picket 
alone. At the end of the meeting, 83 receipts had been given, but after 
six months of validity, the vast majority of people became undocumented 
again.
On the DPD side, things are progressing slowly (receipts) with the Évry 
prefecture. Since the end of October 2021, three strikes by undocumented 
workers have started successively. They installed pickets in front of 
their companies: the DPD platform (subsidiary of La Poste) in 
Coudray-Montceaux, the Chronopost agency in Alfortville and the RSI 
interim agency in Gennevilliers(4). The main demand in this labor 
conflict is the regularization of all the workers fighting on these 
three pickets within the framework of collective negotiation.

Undocumented Postal Workers face a total refusal from La Poste to 
recognize its responsibilities as employers in the cascade 
subcontracting system set up in its parcel and logistics subsidiaries, 
such as at Chronopost Alfortville or DPD in Coudray-Montceau.: 
construction sites and package processing subcontracted for example to 
Derichebourg, which itself subcontracts to temporary employment 
agencies, including its own (Derichebourg Intérim)! Let us add that this 
is done with mission contracts that are systematically one week long, 
whereas these are long-term positions. At the end of this chain, there 
is the shameless exploitation of undocumented workers, forced to work 
crazy hours, incompatible with the use of public transport, including 
overtime (or even part of the hours altogether). ) are not paid, and 
whose missions are interrupted as soon as they cannot keep up or they 
demand their rights.
For more than 24 months, the workers in struggle and their supporters 
have increased their mobilizations in front of the management 
headquarters of La Poste and its subsidiaries, to demand that these 
shameless bosses assume their responsibilities as order givers! La Poste 
was fully aware, since it ended up breaking contracts with Derichebourg. 
This fight, at Chronopost Alfortville, took over from that which, 
between June 2019 and January 2020, had made it possible to impose the 
regularization of 27 workers overexploited by this subsidiary of La 
Poste and its subcontractors, Derichebourg and Mission Intérim, and the 
regularization of 46 other workers, from other companies, who actively 
participated in this fight. Among the 83 workers excluded at the time of 
regularization, many are continuing the fight in the current conflict.
In their struggle, the current employees of Chronopost, like the former 
members of the 2019 picket, have received reinforcement from numerous 
undocumented workers from other companies, most of them exploited under 
the same conditions, and present for more than 24 months on the pickets 
and in demonstrations, to also demand their regularization.

The Val-de-Marne prefecture, after 18 months of silence and refusal, 
finally received a delegation from the Chronopost picket in May. A few 
files were then submitted to the prefecture, and a very small number of 
residence permits have since been issued. We are therefore very far from 
"benevolent" treatment of the Chronopost strikers and their supporters. 
"Benevolent treatment according to the file" which had been affirmed by 
the prefecture. The prefecture is increasing the demands, in particular 
by asking again for documents from employers that neither Derichebourg, 
nor the other subcontractors, nor La Poste have ever wanted to provide. 
On the other hand, the prefecture of Créteil (94) to date refuses any 
new collective submission of files from other workers fighting on the 
picket. There can be no question of the mobilized workers accepting this 
divisive maneuver, and the struggle therefore continues for the 
regularization of all the occupants of the picket.

The responsibility of the government, in particular with regard to the 
Post Office and its subsidiaries, is fully engaged as the reference 
shareholder of this company whose capital it controls alongside the 
Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC); the State is aware of the 
exploitation system that has been in place for years. The Ministry of 
Labor is fully aware of the situation and responsibilities of 
subcontractors and principals. But no more than two years ago, the 
services of the Ministry of Labor in Val-de-Marne (DRIEETS) have not 
carried out a real investigation into the exploitation of undocumented 
immigrants at Chronopost Alfortville, and are in fact covering up the 
Post Office Management. During the demonstration in front of its 
management on October 4, this ministry refused to receive us, referring 
us again to the Ministry of the Interior. At the Ministry of the 
Interior, where we have demonstrated many times and requested hearings, 
there is radio silence regarding these La Poste subsidiaries and their 
subcontractors. The Ministry of the Interior referring us to the prefecture.
In a context where Macron, Darmanin, relying on the right and the far 
right, are calling for an unbearable tightening of all reception and 
stay conditions for migrants, the workers fighting on the pickets, with 
their supports, are more determined than ever to obtain their 
regularization.
Regularization of all undocumented immigrants!

Contribute financially to the struggle: participate in the strike fund
https://www.cotizup.com/sans-papier...

Salary Insubordination
January 2024

Notes
[1]The strikers are Chronopost workers. Other undocumented workers, who 
work in other companies, are present on the picket line outside of their 
working hours

[2]The comrades are breaking the record for housekeepers at IBIS hotels

[3]SUD PTT 94, SOLIDAIRES 94; the financial and political support of 
Solidaires union networks. And certain political groups Town Hall of 
Alfortville LO, LFI, PCF. If NUPES elected officials challenge the 
government in the National Assembly and the Senate, their local 
activists are hardly present, with rare exceptions.

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