“Now you will suffer,” launched the general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet, against Alexandre Bompard, general director of Carrefour. The trade unionist took part in a protest demonstration against the transition of numerous stores to rental management, organized in the suburbs of Paris.
A hundred CGT union members met this Tuesday starting at 11 a.m. in the Bercy 2 shopping center in Charenton-le-Pont, on the outskirts of Paris. They protested against the group’s policy of handing over the management of numerous stores to third parties (while still being the owner of the business), a practice that has led it to be accused by unions of “low-profile social failure.”
“The end of the rental management system”
The group’s management regularly responds that “thanks largely to rental management and local management, no Carrefour hypermarket has closed in France since 2018.” In Bercy 2, the Carrefour establishment kept its doors closed while representatives of the CGT spoke at midday, AFP noted.
In the presence of LFI deputy Alexis Corbière, Sophie Binet demanded “the end of the rental management system.” “Starting today, fear must change sides,” she said. “I think Bompard felt it, after years of impunity in which he operated his system silently, now everyone knows it, everyone is aware, the CGT is mobilized and will not give up.”
23,000 employees left the workforce
The distributor listed on the CAC 40, second in the sector in France behind the E.Leclerc group, announced at the end of October that it planned to transfer 37 new establishments, including 16 large ones (hypermarkets), to leasing management in 2024. The CFDT estimates that a total of 305 stores (including 80 hypermarkets) have left or are in the process of leaving Carrefour, that is, more than 23,000 employees eliminated from the workforce, since Alexandre Bompard became the company’s director. group in mid-2017.
“Carrefour can say that the stores transferred to lease management perform better, waiting for the only objective data to be the loss of the collective agreement and employee remuneration” after a transition period of fifteen months, he denounced late October to AFP Sylvain Macé. , CFDT delegate within the group.
Source: BFM TV
