A union delegate from the H&M GBC logistics platform in Le Bourget (Seine-Saint-Denis), whose fashion giant has announced the closure, tried to set himself on fire Tuesday morning during a negotiation meeting with The direction.
This 39-year-old employee, employed for 18 years on the site and UNSA delegate, sprayed himself with gasoline on the site’s parking lot in an attempt to set himself on fire, several employees reported. Mobilized on the picket line, they immediately came to help him.
The union delegate participated in a meeting with the management of the site as part of the job protection plan (PSE) opened after the announcement of the closure of the warehouse, the only logistics platform in France of the loan giant -to wear.
During the discussions, he left the room and went outside, where he wanted to kill his life, explained Fatima Karim, CGT delegate.
We don’t care about money. The priority is reclassification
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“He is someone who has his head, who has always negotiated and here we are facing a leadership that provokes” by offering only weak support measures, she said. “We are not interested in money. The priority is reclassification [des salariés], we want to keep our jobs, “the union representative said on Monday.
This father said he was tired by the strike launched on October 7 – which shut down the site – but anxious to continue the mobilization.
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H&M plans to close its store on the Champs-Elysées
The Swedish ready-to-wear giant H&M intends to close its boutique on the Champs-Elysées, eleven years after its disputed installation on the famous Parisian avenue. The process should last two months, at the end of which H&M ensures that the 105 employees of the store “will have the possibility of being reassigned to another store”.
The group “is currently going through a transformation at a global level during which we continue to adapt to meet increased customer expectations and to ensure that we have the right stores in the right locations,” he said to justify his decision. decision.
In April, H&M announced its decision to close 350 of its 5,000 stores around the world this year, and to open 100.
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Despite sharply increasing profits exceeding pre-pandemic levels of Covid 19, Hennes and Mauritz (H&M) has announced that it wants to reorient its activity to adapt it to internet sales.
H&M France explained on Friday that the closure of the Le Bourget site, which has around 150 employees, was the result of a “new organization of logistics flows” in the region.
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