It is a national movement relayed this Saturday April 3, 2021, in Quetigny, in front of the Carrefour store. Several dozen employees responded to the CGT’s call to demand more recognition and salary increases as well as the payment of a Covid premium of 1000 euros.
Employees on the front line since the start of the crisis
Among the claims, the payment of a Covid premium of 1000 euros, as was the case last year. For the unions, this would be legitimate in view of the announcements of record profits recorded in February by the CEO of the Carrefour group.
« The bosses offered us a bonus of 200 euros gross, in addition to another bonus, but it is not worth last year’s »Explains Florence Galant, union representative.
“A flagrant lack of staff”
What marks more particularly the employees, it is the absences of colleagues (sick or on leave) who are not replaced. « Sometimes there are only two of us for a whole industry »Says Martine, annoyed. She takes care of the food department. ” We are few, we cannot take care of everything at the same time! And then you have to see in the reserve … the pallets of merchandise piling up … She describes.
On the cash side, we are also worried. This is the case with Sophie. “Sometimes, I have to take care of all the customers who are at the automatic tills, one by one. They get impatient, and I feel the pressure mounting, ”she explains.
An employee killed himself
A few weeks ago, an employee, cashier killed himself in the Carrefour parking lot, reserved for employees. ” He was at wit’s end »Describes Michele, with tears in her eyes.
For her, his presence at the rally in front of the Carrefour is above all for his deceased colleague. « He leaves behind a wife, and a young boy. He was so overwhelmed, overworked, that he preferred to die … »She continues. “It is to avoid these tragedies that we are gathered today, and to demand better working conditions” she concludes before bursting into tears.
The employees were able to meet the store manager in the afternoon.
– Nourhane Mahmoudi
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