Three Sanofi employees – including two elected members of the CGT – are being fired, the union said on Tuesday, which believes that this decision is linked to the social movement that has been agitating the laboratory for several weeks.
Two CGT elected officials were informed of their dismissal at the Sanofi site in Le Trait (Seine-Maritime), according to the CGT. They were accused of having participated in the blockade of this drug and vaccine production site during the November strike, confirmed Sanofi, contacted by AFP.
A third employee, presented by the CGT as a union activist at the Sanofi plant in Montpellier, has already been fired, for reasons unrelated to the social movement, the laboratory specifies, evoking “individual situations relating to different issues.”
“Strict respect for the law”
Sanofi experienced a strike movement at the end of 2022 that affected more than 14 sites in France, according to the CGT, with blockades at some of these sites. The unions demanded salary increases, but also the hiring of precarious contracts.
The laboratory responds that the ongoing procedures “are in strict compliance with the law. It is not in any way violations of the right to strike but rather procedures initiated in relation to observed and proven abuses within the framework of an abnormal exercise of this right by their authors”.
By 2023, Sanofi, which will soon publish its annual results, has promised to increase the base salary of its employees by 4.5%, to which is added a bonus of 2,000 euros.
Source: BFM TV
