less than 10% of tellers on strike this Tuesday

La Poste tellers were called to strike this Tuesday, but only 8.90% of them took action, according to management.

The inter-union union bringing together Sud-PTT, CGT, FO and the CFTC had called the group’s tellers to strike to defend their working conditions, with Sud-PTT even launching a call for a general strike of 184,000 employees in France. The CFDT, the leading union among postal workers (24.5% in 2022), was not associated with the movement.

Travel “up to 60 km”

Concerning tellers, called upon to work in increasingly large territories, the inter-union points out “the unilateral decision of the employer to authorize longer trips to several offices”, explained Alain Pelletingeas, of FO, this Tuesday . “Up to 60 km,” said Pascal Frémont, from Sud-PTT.
The tellers, or customer service representatives, were called to gather, particularly in front of the group’s management. Alain Pelletingeas hoped that “30 to 40% of the staff concerned” would mobilize.

More broadly, Sud-PTT appealed to all La Poste employees. “While the company, 100% owned by the public authorities, sees its turnover and operating margin increase, La Poste staff are undergoing reorganizations, transfers and pressures of all kinds,” lamented the union in a communicated Friday.

“Gramping precarity”

In his eyes, “the governance of La Poste is responsible for low wages, rampant job insecurity and the deterioration of working conditions and access to public service”. “Part of the activity is subcontracted. We necessarily have the image of our cousins ​​at France Telecom, now Orange, where all production activity has been subcontracted, we are afraid of that,” explained Pascal Frémont.

Its union recalled on Friday that La Poste was the first French company condemned, at the end of 2023, for failing to fulfill its “duty of vigilance”, due to the working conditions of undocumented immigrants in its subsidiaries. The group appealed.

La Poste suffered a drop in its net profit of 49% in 2023, to 514 million euros. Turnover amounted to 34 billion euros, up 2.4%.