The message is clear: workers do not want independent management of supermarkets, which is synonymous with the deterioration of their working conditions and the loss of long-term jobs. “In fact, little by little, the workers who have certain rights today in the integrated stores, are more than likely to lose a number of them the day following the franchise, argument Myriam Djegham, permanent CNE. Not only will there be a deterioration in pay and working conditions for those who stay, but there is also a risk in terms of employment..”
So, in the end, what will this business council be used for? For the management, it is an information session, the first of a series of three, intended to answer questions from the unions.
The questions must have been sent last Thursday and there are many of them. They revolve around the financial results of the Delhaize group, in Belgium and abroad. The unions actually want the management to justify its choice economically. “We don’t really ask questionsnuance Myriam Delmée, president of Setca. We make observations. And on the basis of these observations, it is out of the question that we negotiate lines, commas, points of an already written plan.“
