If you live in the west of the Orleans metropolis, La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin, Ingré, or even Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle, you probably found yourself deprived of mail this Tuesday. La Poste agents at the Ingré distribution center are on strike to demand more human resources. Nearly 80% of the planned rounds were not carried out Tuesday according to the Sud-PTT union. A movement renewed this Wednesday, April 6.
Extended rounds, a consequence of a lack of postal workers
The strikers denounce degraded working conditions since the reorganization of La Poste at the end of September. “The heart of the problem is the lack of means, the lack of human means, and the rounds which are, as we say in our country, ‘uncovered’, that is to say which are not distributed because there is no there is no one on these tours. Saturday three agents were missing (…) Monday three more. It was the drop of water that broke the camel’s back. Especially since we have precarious contracts – unfortunately – which are stopped. There Saturday we have a CDD contract which has not been renewed while we are completely understaffed“explains David Sempé, secretary of the Sud-PTT union in Loiret.
“We’ve been working overtime for at least eight weeks (…) we’re taking extra bits of tour now every day of the week” describes Yohann, postman at Ingré. He describes the different stages that followed the reorganization of his profession at the end of last September: “It deteriorated, we cashed in, it was better and that’s deteriorated again. Since then, it’s been the berezinasums up the man who has worked at La Poste since 2003.
A strike in full distribution of professions of faith
Beyond the letters which are not distributed, it is also the professions of faith of the candidates for the presidential election which do not arrive in the mailboxes, five days now from the first round. A period of high activity usually for the agents of La Poste, which reinforces the current feeling of anger at Ingré according to David Sempé: “It’s an additional workload, and in addition we asked the agents to distribute them, but above all by not doing too much overtime“. A position that provokes a feeling of anger among employees, especially since, according to the union representative, La Poste pockets 85 million euros for the distribution of these leaflets.
And we would not have the right to our share of the cake? – gets annoyed David Sempé
In the meantime, the leaflets therefore remain in the distribution center; “and I think they will stay there a little longer“comments the representative Sud-PTT, who has just attended the vote to ratify the renewal of the strike on Wednesday. The management, according to him, would have conceded to certain demands made by the employees, but at the margin.