“It's beyond our fears“, deplores Franck Martinaud, FO delegate at Auchan, after the confirmation this Tuesday by Auchan of a social plan providing for the elimination of nearly 2,400 jobs. Certainly, the union organizations expected difficult announcements, but not of this magnitude This is also the feeling of Gwenaëlle Monnier, CFDT central delegate at Auchan: “These are very brutal announcements, we remain in shock“, she said, “We are not blind, we had a small idea of what was going to happen, we can clearly see the results, but not of this magnitude.“
Not only did these announcements have the effect of a hammer blow for many employees and trade unionists, but This announcement is all the more bitter according to them as they have the feeling of having widely alerted management without having been heardas Gwenaëlle Monnier explains: ” They have been told for years that their model is no longer the right one, that they are not making the right choices, that decisions should have been made ten years ago. And today we realize that we are heading into a wall.“
Same feeling for Nadia Lamda, cashier and union representative at the Auchan hypermarket in Grande-Synthe, near Dunkirk, who also deplores not having been heard: ” We've been telling them to be careful for years! We see it in stores, we have never been listened to. We see, for example, that people no longer want such a long purchasing journey, it's over, they want it to be quick. But we have large areas, 16,000m² for my store!“.
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Odile Senellart
France
