"20,000 to 30,000 jobs are in danger of disappearing": at Roissy, employees between fear and anger

" This is just the beginning.

It is a massacre which is preparing.

“Concern and anger are palpable this Thursday at Roissy airport.

More than a thousand people took part in a new “march for jobs”.

It started from terminal 2E, one of the few still open on this airport platform which has been idling for a year now.

Still 50% partial unemployment at ADP in particular.

Many employees of the platform have not reworked at all since last March.

"I am very worried," breathes Mori, 54 years old working at Samsic, a luggage assistance company.

I have been losing € 600 per month since March.

When we have paid the charges, there is nothing left.

"

A mobilization at the call of the different union organizations of the platform in order to warn about the economic and social crisis to come.

A first rally on the same slogan had already been organized on October 15 to make the public authorities heard.

Indeed, the unions estimate that “20,000 to 30,000 jobs risk disappearing” out of the more than 90,000, direct and indirect, identified at the end of 2019.

Job losses with voluntary departure plans already announced at ADP - at least 700 not replaced as of this year - and at Air France - nearly 7,600 fewer jobs to come - but also many small and medium-sized companies dependent on the activity of its two main groups.

"15,000 to 25,000 jobs threatened by mid-2022 to the end of 2022"

"It is estimated that a job cut from one of these two principals is three to five jobs cut from subcontractors," explains Eric Lamy, secretary general of CGT Roissy.

The unions also recall the thousands of temporary workers who were the first to lose their contracts.

The finding is close at Paris CDG Alliance, a public interest group that brings together private and public actors in the territory, projecting “15,000 to 25,000 jobs threatened by mid-2022 to the end of 2022”.

Their projections show more than 7,000 fewer jobs by mid-2021 due to the drop in temporary work, the end of fixed-term contracts and the non-replacement of retiring departures, among providers of large groups.

We are also worried about the Roissy-Pays-de-France agglomeration.

The subcontractors of the large groups fear they will be the first to be hit by the job cuts.

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“These figures are not unfounded, even if we hope of course that this will not be the case, explains Nicolas Pavil deputy director of services.

In particular, we are the second largest hotel park in France.

10,000 hotel rooms are barely running at 20%.

And we don't know when it will restart. ”

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The fear is therefore a multiplication of employment protection plans (PSE) in the coming months in the various activities of the platform.

But layoffs are already recorded and underway at subcontractors.

At Flybus, which specializes in transporting passengers from the terminal to the aircraft, the aim is to cut 34 out of 96 positions.

At Gibag-SGH, a subsidiary of the 3S group specializing in airport assistance and security, the objective is to eliminate around 10% of its 178 employees.

Layoffs are already mentioned in another subsidiary of the same group, ARC 1, 235 employees of the baggage check-in.

"We are not there yet but by this summer, it will happen, deplores Mohamed, CFTC delegate.

The management tells us that it is linked to the supported rate of partial unemployment because it is the State which pays so far.

So if it decreases, we expect breakage.

But all this is opportunism.

"

"They take the opportunity to lock people out"

The word comes up regularly.

Because for many, yes the crisis is there but "the Covid has good back".

This is the feeling of Jean-Marc, Charles and Kader who should receive their dismissal letter this week from RTO, a subsidiary of the GEH group.

After a “botched” PES, 67 out of 150 people find themselves unemployed.

“Yes, there is a drop in traffic but there they have fired all of the staff, they get annoyed.

They take the opportunity to lock people out and when they take over they will replace them with temporary workers and fixed-term contracts.

We will arrive at even more precariousness on the platform.

"

Same impression at the CBS group where 195 layoffs, 300 perhaps, hang in the face of 430 employees.

For the unions, the state must intervene by conditioning its aid to a commitment of "zero layoffs".

"The public authorities must hear us and help us save our jobs," says Eric Lamy.

Contacted, the Ministry of Labor did not respond to our requests.