A-Infos (en) France, OCL CA #351 - Wage insubordination: strikes at Stellantis, Yoplait, La Provence... (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Strike at the Poissy plant of the automotive giant Stellantis ---- On 
Tuesday, April 15, nearly 200 workers at the Stellantis plant in Poissy 
walked out, halting production. The strikers anticipate the consequences 
of the Opel Mokka production shutdown, which is scheduled to end in 
2028. "For the first time, even subcontractors have joined us: GSF, 
Derichebourg, Forvia, Geodis, Trigo, Veolia... They are worried too. 
Some of these are people we've known for over 30 years. If production 
stops, they too are in danger." The general meeting decided to establish 
a strike committee "independent of unions" that would allow non-union 
members to build the movement. In addition to guarantees regarding 
continued activity, the strikers are demanding a guaranteed senior leave 
longer than the three years currently provided for and better 
compensation than the 70% of the current system. They are also demanding 
a guaranteed permanent employment contract for those who must continue 
working and a bonus above the statutory limit in the event of dismissal, 
the amount of which must be decided collectively by the strikers.

Strike at Yoplait
Yoplait's three sites in France (Vienne, Le Mans, and Monéteau) 
experienced an unprecedented strike that began on March 18. The strikers 
had agreed on aggressive demands: a salary increase of at least 10% with 
a minimum of EUR150. The movement was motivated by the desire for a 
better distribution of profits. In addition to the crumbs offered by 
management to workers and employees, managers receive "target-based 
bonuses" proportional to their salaries and thus much more attractive. 
Following this strong mobilization, management maintained its initial 
proposal of a 2.3% gross salary increase, but proposed a EUR400 
purchasing power bonus, a 0.7% increase in profit-sharing, a EUR100 
increase in the holiday bonus, and a EUR50 increase in the 
transportation bonus. In addition, a EUR30,000 allocation was made to 
the classification of the manual/technical employee category. The 
proposal was accepted at the various staff meetings on April 4th, and 
the mobilization thus ended after nearly three weeks. The three Yoplait 
factories in France belong to the Sodiaal group, which also owns other 
major names in the food industry such as Candia and Entremont.

Thales - Mérignac: Inter-company demonstration
On Thursday, April 10th, nearly a thousand employees of the aeronautical 
industries in the Mérignac industrial zone, near Bordeaux, demonstrated 
for wages. Three-quarters of the protesters were Thales employees, whose 
wage protests began on January 9. Thales employees marched out of their 
factory, the Campus, and met in the middle of the industrial zone with 
delegations from Dassault, Airbus, various Ariane sites, and also 
subcontractors such as CGI, Akkodis, Akka, Hensoldt, and others. The 
protesters' common demand was wages. The shareholders of the aeronautics 
employers' association agreed to impose a 2% pay increase on the 
sector's employees, increases of a few dozen euros per employee, while 
they themselves reap billions, a billion in dividends and share buybacks 
from Thales alone last year. On April 14, Thales management, feeling the 
pressure mounting-several dozen employees went on strike in Toulouse and 
are walking off the job in Vélizy-attempted to calm the employees' 
anger. She released an additional EUR500 bonus and initiated 
negotiations to increase profit-sharing and employee profit-sharing. 
Even when distributed to 40,000 employees, EUR500 represents 2% of the 
money paid to shareholders-crumbs that satisfy no one.

In Mayotte, strike at Colas
On February 25, a strike began at ETPC, a Colas subsidiary controlled by 
the Bouygues group, which operates an aggregate quarry and manufactures 
concrete blocks and curbs. The workers are demanding the payment of a 
EUR3,000 "Chido bonus." A March 20 ruling, ordering the lifting of the 
first picket line with a daily penalty payment of EUR1,000, forced the 
suspension of the strike. However, Colas workers, in turn, went on 
strike and have since faced the boss's relentless legal harassment. The 
majority of workers are of Comorian origin, and their presence in the 
country is conditional upon their employment contract. For them, 
striking means exposing themselves to dismissal and expulsion. After 
more than two months of strikes at ETPC, more than a month at Colas, the 
workers know that a different balance of power will be needed to break 
the contract.

NTN - Allonnes: Strike against layoffs

The factory, which manufactures transmissions for numerous car brands, 
has 620 employees, including 300 production workers and dozens of 
permanent temporary workers. 127 job cuts are planned, especially among 
blue-collar workers, who are the most affected by this plan. Many 
workers decided to fight back and go on strike on April 10. The night 
shift started on its own: 90 workers called it quits, and no production 
came out. The CGT union immediately called on the other two shifts to 
follow suit, which they did, and the workers gathered at the roundabout 
in front of the factory. The strike lasted from April 10 to 16. The 
strikers refused to move from the roundabout where they were gathered 
until management granted the sum they were demanding. Finally, at the 
end of the day, the union slightly increased the bonus amounts, and this 
umpteenth proposal was accepted by the vast majority of the strikers.

Strike against the PSE at the newspaper La Provence
The social action was decided after "the announcement on April 29 of a 
brutal and unilateral Job Protection Plan (PSE), which directly 
threatens dozens of jobs," stated the Filpac-CGT in a press release. La 
Tribune Dimanche, a Sunday weekly newspaper that, like the La Provence 
group (including the regional dailies La Provence and Corse-Matin), 
belongs to the shipping company CMA CGM, owned by Rodolphe Saadé, also 
did not appear in print in the southeast, southwest, and Rhône-Alpes 
regions. The plan would affect 72 jobs, including 51 at the printing 
plant, which will close in September. The CEO of CMA Media, the media 
holding company of CMA CGM, which also owns BFMTV and RMC radio, assured 
AFP that "a redeployment proposal will be made for each of the 
employees" concerned. 25 redeployment proposals will be made, notably 
within the new printing works (which prints La Marseillaise) that CMA 
Media will acquire in Vitrolles.

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