Delhaize circumvents the law by hiring students. “Stores must have a minimum of five employees to open. They got two students and gave them three-day contracts to open the whole Easter weekend”s’insurge Bertrand Delplanque.
Despite the intervention of a bailiff, the strikers continued to carry out their action, but further from the store entrance. “When we explained the situation to customers, a large part of them were supportive”, continues the workers’ representative. According to him, the few customers who nevertheless passed through the door of the sign found a store with a lot of missing products.
I’ve been in the business for 22 years, and I’ve never seen this
For the workers, it is a new hard blow. “I’ve been in the business for 22 years, and I’ve never heard of that. In recent days, the staff was rather resigned. With this announcement, he is angry again”explains Bertrand Delplanque.
The next conciliation meeting is scheduled for April 18. “A very distant date”he regrets. “I will hold out until the 18th. But the workers are so disgusted that in the end, they are the ones who decide that they no longer want to work. When the stores reopen, I don’t know how it will be.“