2023-11-09 12:12:36
After six days of strike, Airbus paint room teams returned to work this Wednesday morning. As soon as November 2 and the announcement of the dismissal of Corentin, an aeronautical painter on the A320 assembly line, his colleagues mobilized to protest against this decision. “We said to ourselves that, tomorrow, it could be anyone,” confides one of them.
Having completed the Airbus high school and on a permanent contract for five years with the aircraft manufacturer, the young man was sanctioned for having “deliberately refused to comply with the safety rules in force at Airbus, which are intended to guarantee the safety of our employees and of our products”, in the words of Airbus management.
Fatigue linked to “a fourth consecutive Saturday of overtime after two weeks of night work”
On September 23, the worker was found guilty of not wearing his safety harness while he was on the wing of a plane. “But as soon as the manager told him, he went to put it on,” assures Patrice Thébault, CGT central union delegate. “It is a tiring, demanding, risky position, and the employee was working a fourth consecutive Saturday overtime after two weeks of night work. »
According to him, it was more of an error linked to fatigue, which would have required a layoff or a warning. “A worker never comes to work to put himself in danger. » The trade unionist further questions the increase in pace at the end of the year, which entails many hours of work in order to meet delivery objectives.
“Airbus assures that safety is their priority but it is, according to them, a matter of culture, blaming the employees, without taking into account our working conditions,” insists Patrice Thébault. The strike took place a few days before the professional elections on November 21.
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