La Poste: cashiers called to strike on Tuesday, mobilization expected between 30 and 40%

They intend to protect their working conditions. The inter-union union uniting Sud-PTT, CGT, FO and CFTC called on La Poste cashiers to go on strike on Tuesday, and Sud-PTT even called for a general strike of 160,000 employees. The CFDT, the leading postal workers union (24.5% in 2022), has not joined the movement.

As for cashiers called upon to work over increasingly larger territories, the union denounces the employer’s “unilateral decision to allow longer trips to multiple offices,” FO’s Alain Pelletingeas explained on Tuesday – “up to 60 km.” – clarified Pascal Fremont from Sud-PTT. Cashiers or customer service representatives were encouraged to gather in front of group management in particular. Alain Pelletingeas hopes that “30 to 40% of the relevant personnel” will mobilize.

“La Poste management is responsible for low wages”

In a broader sense, Sud-PTT addresses all La Poste employees. “While the 100% government-owned company is seeing an increase in turnover and operating profitability, La Poste employees are experiencing reorganizations, transfers and pressures of all kinds,” the union lamented in a statement published this Friday.

In his opinion, “La Poste’s management is responsible for low wages, rampant job insecurity and deteriorating working conditions and access to public service.” “Some of the work is carried out on a subcontract. We definitely have the image of our cousins ​​from France Telecom, now Orange, where all production activities are subcontracted, we are afraid of this,” explained Pascal Frémont.

On Friday, its union recalled that La Poste was the first French company to be convicted at the end of 2023 for failing to fulfill its “duty of vigilance” over the working conditions of illegal immigrants at its subsidiaries. The group appealed. In 2023, La Poste’s net profit fell by 49% to 514 million euros. Turnover amounted to 34 billion euros, an increase of 2.4%.