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Strike at Sanofi: "total success" according to the CGT, "less than 5% of strikers" according to management

2021-01-19T18:04:49.903Z


The strike on Tuesday at Sanofi is a "total success" with a "record" mobilization , judged the CGT, while the group has recorded "less than 5% of strikers" during a movement against restructuring and for increases salaries. Read also: Sanofi's departure plan takes a political turn “Employees have a strong desire to do battle. They say 'stop with contempt, stop cutting jobs', they are tired of wo


The strike on Tuesday at Sanofi is a

"total success"

with a

"record"

mobilization

, judged the CGT, while the group has recorded

"less than 5% of strikers"

during a movement against restructuring and for increases salaries.

Read also: Sanofi's departure plan takes a political turn

“Employees have a strong desire to do battle.

They say 'stop with contempt, stop cutting jobs', they are tired of working without recognition of their investment, ”

Jean-Louis Peyren, coordinator of the CGT, one of the organizing unions told AFP.

According to a spokesperson for the management, interviewed by AFP, there were

"less than 5% of strikers on the French workforce of Sanofi"

.

For the CGT, which had called for walkouts of

"two to eight hours"

in twenty sites, the movement is

"a total success"

.

“We go beyond all the mobilizations we have known.

We broke our records, ”said

Louis Peyren.

The union, which had launched

"in December"

its call to strike, before

"other unions (it) join"

, will

"take stock Thursday"

of this mobilization and will examine the possibility of a new strike.

"In view of today's success (Tuesday), the CGT feels ready to consider another strike that would be renewable,"

added Louis Peyren.

"We want to stop the job breakdown, return to negotiations on wages, an improvement in working conditions with hiring and the end of precarious jobs in CDD or temporary"

, he listed.

"We want health to return to the center of the group's interests"

, while Sanofi

"is not present in the Covid vaccine market"

, he lamented.

"Humanly intolerable"

The CFDT, which had also launched strike calls to

“demand collective increases”

in wages, had

“no return” on

Tuesday from all the sites concerning the extent of participation.

But the union had noted

"a fairly significant mobilization on different sites,"

said Florence Faure, CFDT coordinator.

“Under pressure”

and

“in a difficult environment”

, at all levels of the company,

“the employees have been working like crazy for months and months.

Everyone went to the front.

A group of this level can do more in terms of wage policy.

This is not normal, ”

said Florence Faure.

The CFDT also wants

“stability”

in the group,

“an end to restructuring.

At some point, it has to stop, it's humanly intolerable.

Employees need perspectives.

You never know if your job today will be there tomorrow, ”

she criticized.

Stressing that

"it is very complicated to organize a movement in the current situation"

, Pascal Lopez of FO also denounced

"the lack of prospects in the company"

for employees,

"extremely invested in their work"

.

Read also: Sanofi action suffers from delay in its vaccine

Near Lyon, some 200 employees gathered in front of the striking Marcy-l'Etoile site.

“We have nothing to expect from management.

Before making a vaccine, they think about making money.

Sanofi's DNA is to give money to its shareholders, ”

protested Tristan Teyssier (CGT).

While negotiations on the elimination of 400 jobs in research and development (R&D) could begin at the end of January,

"then we will be surprised that we do not have a vaccine or drugs to put on the market"

, noted Brahim Aniba (FO).

Source: lefigaro

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