Hundreds of undocumented workers launched a coordinated strike movement on Tuesday morning in more than 30 companies in the Ile-de-France to denounce their “overexploitation” and demand their regularization, they learned from the CGT, which accompanies them.
In total, about 500 people, mostly from Africa, occupied 33 construction, logistics, cleaning and even distribution companies where they work on Tuesday, mainly in Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis.
A few steps from the Stade de France, 34 of them entered the headquarters of a temporary employment company in Saint-Denis, for which they work as garbage collectors or construction workers, particularly on the Olympic Games sites and from Greater Paris, noted an AFP journalist.
Accompanied by union activists, they displayed a CGT banner and promised to occupy the premises until its “regularization.”
Subcontractors of large companies
The majority of the strikers work as temporary workers for subcontractors, “for the benefit” of giants such as Véolia, Chronopost and Carrefour, which “make it possible to mask the overexploitation” of these undocumented immigrants, denounces in a statement the CGT, which supports their action. .
“We want things to happen,” explained Mamadou Kébé, who obtained his regularization after a year of strike between October 2008 and 2009.
Every year between 7,000 and 10,000 workers are regularized. Insufficient, for the CGT, which estimates this workforce at several hundred thousand people.
Source: BFM TV
