The delivery men of an Amazon service provider have blocked the warehouse of the American e-commerce giant in Briec (Finistère) since Monday to demand payment of their salaries.
“We are only blocking packages. Employees and empty trucks can go in and out,” Yoann, 38, a delivery driver for NGS Express, based in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Dennis).
The driver, who did not want to give his last name, says he has not received a salary in March and has not received “several weeks” since the end of October. “How do I feed my four children?” he wonders.
The Briec site, near Quimper, is the only Amazon warehouse in Brittany. Inaugurated at the end of October 2022, it has an area of 6,000 m2, according to the group.
“We want to be free of all that”
A spokeswoman told AFP that Amazon had terminated the contract with NGS Express in early March for “failure to comply with contractual obligations.”
“We strongly believe that our delivery partners must abide by Amazon’s Supplier Code of Conduct and our contractual obligations,” he said.
Without hearing from their boss since mid-March, NGS Express’s 37 employees continued to work for Amazon until the end of March. They decided to block the site when they learned that they would no longer have access to the warehouse as of April 23.
The employees’ lawyer, Me Franck Carpentier, said he wondered “about the role that Amazon plays in the de facto management of this company.”
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He indicated that a report had been sent to the labor inspectorate and that urgent measures were to be taken before the Bobigny commercial court and the Quimper labor court “to try to obtain payment of the sums” owed.
Amazon, for its part, encouraged NGS Express drivers “to inquire about available positions with other Amazon delivery partners they regularly hire.”
But NGS Express drivers are “all under exclusive contract with a no-compete zone,” according to one of them.
Source: BFM TV
