Orange with Media Services, published on Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 6:41 p.m.
300 Fnac employees in the region demonstrated this Saturday, March 26.
They had come to demand salary and staff increases as well as better working conditions. The group claimed to have “noted walkouts in certain stores in the region concerning 300 employees out of the 6,300 that Fnac has in France” on the operating side, therefore excluding head office staff.
“The walkouts lasted regarding 2 hours per employee, which did not affect the operation of the stores on a Saturday,” adds the group.
Out of 51 stores in the region, “around forty have walked off, with rates between 60 and 80% of CDIs present today” and “stores which had never walked off, such as those in Colmar, Limoges and Poitiers”, estimates Hervé Gomis, CFDT central trade union representative.
The CGT and the CFTC had also called for a strike to demand wage increases in the run-up to the last meeting as part of the mandatory annual negotiations scheduled for Tuesday. The call was little followed in Paris, according to various sources.
The three unions recall that the Fnac-Darty group has announced record results for 2021 and that the Relais company, which oversees the 51 provincial stores, is doing well.
Workforce at half mast
“We have lost staff”, underlines Marc Pietrosino, central delegate CGT Fnac Relais, noting a walkout rate of around 50% of the CDIs present – work-study and temporary workers excluded – out of the fifty stores.
“What makes the success of this mobilization is that the employees can’t take it anymore and the image that the company wants to give outside of a peaceful social dialogue is false”, abounds Hervé Gomis.
According to the CGT, the management proposes increases of 15 euros gross monthly for the bottom of the salary grid. The CFTC advances, for its part, a proposal for an increase of 0.9% for “grid feet” and 1.5% for executives, once morest 5% requested for all employees in the face of inflation.
The group did not wish to comment on the negotiations in progress but recalled the measures taken to support the purchasing power of its employees over the past two years: exceptional bonus of 400 euros for 19,000 employees (i.e. 85% of the total workforce) winning less than 35,000 euros fixed gross, increase of 2.2% on January 1 on the whole of the grid within the framework of branch negotiations and other bonuses.
