Toulouse: Airbus employees end their strike
Since Tuesday, workers at the final assembly line have been on strike. They raised their movement on Thursday.
The strike in the refineries has awakened the social discontent that had been dormant since the start of inflation in many companies. In his wake, employees of the FAL (A320 final assembly line at Airbus Toulouse) decided to go on strike on Tuesday. Something he had not done for 20 years. to inflation, a future decline in their social status in the context of the RELOAD negotiations (declination of the new collective agreement for the metallurgy industry), degraded working conditions since COVID (physical and mental exhaustion, increased pace, etc.) “, indicates the CGTAirbus which ensures that it is the employees who are at the initiative of this social movement.
According to the union, around 100 employees are on strike. The main demand carried by the employees involved in the strike is a 10% increase in wages in the face of galloping inflation. “This claim is totally founded, legitimate and realistic with regard to the financial results and the industrial prospects of the company”, points out the CGT Airbus. The union is pleased that “employees have decided to be actors in improving their working conditions and in defending their claims”.
“There were actually only about twenty striking employees”
The CGT had called on all Airbus employees, whatever their function and status, to join this strike movement to weigh in with the management of the company in taking their demands into account. “For the moment, the movement is struggling to expand to other services. It must be said that the management is pushing for this not to be the case, ”denounced a member of the union this Thursday morning. A few hours later, 150 employees met at a general meeting and voted to end the movement. They submitted a letter with their demands to the management. “If in November we did not get what we want, we will go back on strike”, warns the CGTAirbus.
For its part, the French aircraft manufacturer assures that it is only a “very small number of people who were on strike following the call for mobilization by the CGT”. “This movement has had no impact on the group’s production activities,” continues Airbus. We continue to favor social dialogue. Dialogue which has already materialized earlier in the year with a salary agreement covering an increase of 6.8% on average over two years, for all of the group’s employees in France. »
According to the aircraft manufacturer, only around twenty employees were on strike out of the 28,000 that it has in Toulouse.