Five Renault Trucks sites are affected. A series of work stoppages have affected the heavyweight manufacturer since this week. The employees thus try to assert their demands: they demand salary increases rejected by the management, which has offered them, instead, a new bonus.
According to union sources, work stoppages alternately or sometimes simultaneously affect the two Lyon sites (Saint-Priest and Vénissieux, 4,300 employees) and those of Bourg-en-Bresse, Blainville (Calvados) and Limoges.
Requires reopening of salary negotiations
On Friday morning, the movement affected Bourg-en-Bresse (1,300 employees) and Blainville (1,500), according to the CFDT and the CGT. On Thursday, at the opening of a central CSE in Lyon that was later interrupted, the management had proposed a bonus of 500 euros and a non-call for mutual contribution for November and December of the mandatory part, “a profit for our collaborators of 56 or 75 euros”, he argued.
“The employees want something that stays. If there is a bonus, the better, but we continue with our demands for a general increase in wages,” added Grégory Khiati, central delegate of the CGT. The unions thus demand an increase that covers the “minimum” inflation, according to the latter.
“Wages well above the minimum wage”
The management, for its part, affirms that “the basic salaries are clearly above” the SMIC and that those of the workers and technicians “are increased with various recurring bonuses.”
“Our employees received before the summer holidays” 1,800 euros net of participation and participation, he highlighted, in addition to “an exceptional bonus of 500 euros net” in March 2022 and “a global budget” of more than 3.9% for the 2022 salary increases
Renault Trucks employs 8,000 people in France according to management, including 4,300 industrial jobs and 1,400 in research and development.
Source: BFM TV
