They intend to defend their working conditions. An inter-union union bringing together Sud-PTT, CGT, FO and the CFTC called La Poste tellers to strike this Tuesday, with Sud-PTT even launching a call for a general strike of 160,000 employees. The CFDT, the leading union among postal workers (24.5% in 2022), did not join the movement.
On April 2, at the Post Office and in the P2ST we will be on strike ✊#2avril https://t.co/EkrHgZNNFo
— Sud PTT federation (@fdSudPTT) March 29, 2024
Concerning tellers, called upon to work in increasingly large territories, the inter-union denounces "the unilateral decision of the employer to authorize longer trips to several offices", explained Alain Pelletingeas, of FO, this Tuesday - “up to 60 km”, specified Pascal Frémont, from Sud-PTT. The tellers, or customer service representatives, were called to gather, particularly in front of the group's management. Alain Pelletingeas hopes that “30 to 40% of the staff concerned” will mobilize.
“The governance of La Poste is responsible for low wages”
More broadly, Sud-PTT appeals to all La Poste employees. “While the company, 100% owned by the public authorities, sees its turnover and operating margin increase, La Poste staff are undergoing reorganizations, transfers and pressures of all kinds,” the union deplored in a communicated this Friday.
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In his eyes, “the governance of La Poste is responsible for low wages, rampant job insecurity and the deterioration of working conditions and access to public service”. “Part of the activity is subcontracted. We necessarily have the image of our cousins at France Telecom, now Orange, where all production activity has been subcontracted, we are afraid of that,” explained Pascal Frémont.
Its union recalled this Friday that La Poste was the first French company condemned, at the end of 2023, for failure to fulfill its “duty of vigilance”, due to the working conditions of undocumented immigrants in its subsidiaries. The group appealed. In 2023, La Poste suffered a drop in its net profit of 49%, to 514 million euros. Turnover amounted to 34 billion euros, up 2.4%.