2023-05-22 23:21:50
The leader of the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounced Monday in Tourcoing (North) the “police violence against the workers” during a rally in support of the employees of Vertbaudet, on strike for more than two months for their wages, a movement that he described as “exemplary”. This rally federated in front of the head office of the childcare brand, CGT activists and representatives of left-wing parties.
“We know that today, the greatest concentration of the working class in this country is in the logistics platforms and that we experience a particular relationship to work there: badly paid, temporary workers, racialized people and so on! launched Jean-Luc Mélenchon, calling to follow the call for a boycott of Vertbaudet launched by the CGT.
“The police I dream of is the police of the Republic, the one that respects”
“We cannot accept police violence against workers,” he also pointed out. “The police that I dream of is the police of the Republic, the one that respects, (…) not a police that beats women, not a police that twists their necks, which strangles. »
Words that were not appreciated in the ranks of the police, while three of their own lost their lives during a police rescue mission 17 km away, in Villeneuve-d’Ascq (North). The national union of police commissioners (SNCP) did not appreciate the words of the leader of the Insoumis.
“The police dream, for their part, that all party leaders and political leaders respect them. Even more when she is bereaved by the loss of three of her family. From dream to reality, there is only one step. But you don’t,” he tweeted above Mélenchon’s comments.
Tensions have been high in recent weeks around this strike movement, which concerns around 70 employees out of 327. The strikers at the Marquette-lez-Lille warehouse have been repeatedly dislodged from their picket line by the police. A striker said she was going to file a complaint for violence by a police officer who held her with an arm around her neck during an evacuation.
The Lille prosecutor’s office opened an investigation after violence reported by the local CGT union against a union representative, who was allegedly beaten by people posing as “plainclothes police”, who came to arrest him outside his home. “Where is Darmanin’s tweet to denounce the people who kidnapped a worker in France in 2023 to beat and humiliate him? “, was indignant Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
CGT rejects new management proposals
The CGT, a minority, refused in early March to sign an agreement on mandatory annual negotiations (NAO), validated by FO and the CFTC. This agreement does not provide for a general salary increase, but a value-sharing bonus of 650 euros in 2023 and other benefits (meal bonuses, additional paid vacation days, etc.)
The union, which is demanding a net 150 euro salary increase, rejected new management proposals on Monday, including the payment to employees of a performance bonus of up to 200 euros gross. A rally of support is to be held Tuesday in Paris, in front of the headquarters of the investment fund Equistone Partners Europe, majority shareholder of Vertbaudet.
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