The employees of the 20 Biofusion laboratories (Inovie Group) in Lot, Tarn-et-Garonne and Haute-Garonne, on strike since Tuesday, renewed their movement on Friday for next week, they demand in particular a revaluation of their Covid premium.
At the rate of two meetings a day, negotiations between strikers and management continued but made little progress.
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Friday at midday, gathered in a general meeting in front of the company's headquarters, the employees decided by a large majority and by show of hands to renew the strike on Monday if no satisfactory agreement is found in the weekend.
The management is offering a Covid bonus of one thousand euros and a 1% salary increase.
"Determined employees"
For Christophe Couderc, departmental secretary of the CGT, “
there are no significant honest advances on which we could negotiate.
After four days of strike, the proposals are unacceptable
”.
The trade unionist says the company has made more than 4 million net profits per year and believes that the company must make an additional gesture in view of "the
efforts made during the Covid containment period and the risks they took
" .
“
We are offered a 1% increase in wages and employees are asking for 10%, which is not excessive.
The employees are very determined and motivated, they need this salary increase to live with dignity,
”according to the departmental secretary of the CGT.
This is one of the first strike movements in medical biology laboratories since the proliferation of virological tests (PCR) in France, the number of which now exceeds one million per week.
This objective, set by the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, is synonymous with overload of work for laboratories, whose staff tire.
At the beginning of September, François Blanchecotte, president of the Syndicat des biologistes (SDB), warned of a risk of "
social explosion, if the staff of private laboratories decided to go on strike
", recalling that they had obtained nothing at the time. of the Ségur de la santé agreements.
