“Children’s Clothing Brand, Verbaudet, Faces Strike as Workers Demand Wage Increases Despite Company Profits”

Since March 20, more than 80 strikers, the vast majority of women and paid at the minimum wage, continue to take turns on the picket line in front of the Verbaudet warehouse in Marquette-lez-Lille to demand wage increases.

The management of this children’s ready-to-wear brand did not grant any salary increase for 2023, despite announcing 27 million in profits for the year 2022.

From the start of this strike, the management, under the orders of the investment fund EQUISTONE and whose majority shareholder is the son of François Fillon, made massive use of temporary workers in order to limit the impact of the strike.

Faced with the illegality of this maneuver, the CGT initiated legal proceedings but the judgment, announced Thursday, May 4, agreed with the management.

After the CRS, which intervened twice against the strikers, here is justice which demonstrates that it is at the service of the interests of the capitalists.

The strikers are a thousand times right to continue their fight. They can only rely on their determination to win.