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In this context of increasingly expensive life, employees are demanding wage increases, especially in companies that are posting record profits. And this, even in SMEs. So in the Loire, 90% of the 140 employees of the Thermal plant Ceramics have been on strike for more than three weeks.
The factories Thermal Ceramics and Lustucru Costs (Loire) have the same claim: increase employee salaries. On Thermal’s website Ceramicsanger has been brewing for three weeks. Unions say the company made windfall profits in 2021, and are demanding commensurate wage increases. “Today we are offered a general increase of 2.6%, when we had started out of 10“, says a union representative.
Factory Lustucru Fspoke have the same expectations. Production has been shut down since Monday, February 7. According to the unions, the company would have released 10 million euros from profits, but only offer them 2% increase. Some SMEs, as well as large French companies, show profits records. For example, BNP Paribas releases 9.5 billion euros in 2021. Urain of benefits, which employees feel they do not benefit enough from.