La Poste employees shout their flush at Rennes

Nearly a hundred employees strikers took turns, Thursday, October 10, before the entrance of the mail industrial platform of Noyal-Châtillon-sur-Seiche employing 460 people. By gradually recovering the activity of the platform of La Mézière and in totality that of Finistère since September 23, they denounce the deterioration of their working conditions and require 40 hires.

They wanted to be heard. With their speakers spewing classic tunes of mobilization,Antisocial at Bella Ciao, this day of Thursday, October 10 is, on this point, successful. Posted at the entrance of La Poste's Mail Industrial Platform (Pic), in Noyal-Châtillon-sur-Seiche, a hundred strikers took turns all day to express their anger. "The goal is to express our tiredness and make our boss understand that we suffer from a real malaise at work", Didier Picard ton. The CGT unionist who immediately said that this is a meeting that does not meet the call of unions. Most day strikers say they are not inset.

Some denounce "Miser wages" and all working conditions that would degrade. "The stop diseases and the inaptitudes multiply. Even executives stop or try to leave. "

"It's become a factory job"

Jean-Louis Amisse, also CGT delegate, describes "What has become a factory job. We spend our time, upright, lifting bins of 8 to 15 kg. The sorting was given to providers ". The Pic Rennes Armorique deals, six days out of seven, 2.5 million folds from and to the departments of Ille-et-Vilaine, Côtes-d'Armor, Morbihan, Mayenne and, since 23 September, Finistere.

90 to 95% of letters are processed mechanically by optical scanning. The rest, rejected by the machine, must then be treated by the man. A mission that allows postal workers to sit down and break a routine they deem unbearable. This task would now be assigned to subcontractors, say the protesters, "Because it's cheaper for them," regrets Vincent Avril, also delegate CGT.

"Offset the decline in mail volume" according to management

With the gradual transfer of the La Mézière platform activity by June 2020, and the totality of the Finistère mail since September 23, the Noyal-Châtillon site would see the pace increase, the strikers accuse. "That's why we are asking for the hiring of 40 people on permanent contracts. On permanent contracts, not by hiring temporary workers or alternates. "

For its part, the management, which evokes the figure of 26% of strikers noted in the day teams, considers that this transfer of activity of the sites of La Mézière and Finistère "Fills the structural decline of mail which is of the order of 7 to 8% per year. Between 2008 and 2020, in France, we went from 18 to 9 billion folds treated per year.

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