Special Envoy to Marquette-lez-Lille
The children's ready-to-wear company Vertbaudet had never experienced a strike. It was not until the 60th anniversary of this mythical brand, founded in northern France in 1963, that a social movement lasting nearly 70 days put it in the media spotlight, with great reinforcement of union-political indignation. Some 72 employees have been demonstrating day after day since March 20 in front of the Vertbaudet logistics warehouse in Marquette-lez-Lille, between Lille and Tourcoing. In this vast hangar, which sits in the middle of a landscape of red bricks and white tailles, 327 employees are busy day and night to prepare all orders before they are shipped to the four corners of Europe.
On the picket line set up on the ninth day of mobilization against the pension reform, the demands relate less to the retirement age or the amount of pensions than to wages. These have not increased...
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