A Primark store in Mulhouse is blocked on Wednesday, June 4 by strike employees who intend to protest against the dismissal of seven of them after a previous reach in March. To the call of the CGT, one hundred union people, simple employees of the site, but also other stores of the Irish brand ready to use, the entrance to the store from 10 am, avoiding access to the customer, said an AFP correspondent.
In the heart of the movement, which must last all day, the employees who participated in a first movement on March 22 and since then fired, “an attack on the right to attack” that is “union repression”, according to the CGT. “Right in the Mulhouse store, Management has summoned 10 surprising employees for disciplinary interviews and seven of them have been fired for completely fallacious reasons,” Ferrier, Federal Secretary CGT and services, told AFP.
The Federation of Services and Commerce of CGT requires the immediate cessation of the sanctions and the reintegration of the dismissed employees.
Degraded working conditions
On March 22, about twenty employees met for three hours in front of the entrance to the store, which remained open. It was the first disconnection of the open brand in Mulhouse in 2023. The CGT intended to denounce degraded working conditions, “toxic” management, recurrent salary problems, discrimination and a union obstacle. On April 16, about fifty people, even about twenty employees, had demonstrated once more.
Contacted every time, the Primark Group Communication Unit did not answer AFP questions.
Primark sells clothes in 453 stores in 17 countries and uses 80,000 people. The executive director of the Irish brand, Paul Marchant, resigned at the end of March after an investigation into his “behavior” towards a woman, awakening the anger of his parent company, Associated British Foods (ABF), who said he defended “a safe, respectful and inclusive work environment.”
Source: BFM TV
