The management noted its proposal for an increase to 3.5%, but the unions consider it insufficient to inflation.
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“Inadmissible”. The Intersyndical Amazon France did not judge sufficient the proposal for salary increase, raised to 3.5% by management. Thursday, April 14, the third – and final – Meeting of the obligatory annual negotiations ended without agreement. Since April 3, the world leader in e-commerce is the subject of France of work stoppages, giving rise, in its warehouses, to rotating disengages and stakes.
“Management has passed its proposal for an increase of 3% to 3.5%, and that’s all,” Regrets Alain Jeault, from the Amazon CGT. The number, note the intersyndictale, is lower than inflation, which has bonded in March to 4.5% over one year – never since 1985, according to INSEE. It is this return from rising prices that, as in many companies, worries employees.
“At the same time, it is learned that Amazon imposes a 5% outaxe on the prices of deliveries, in the name of inflation and the price of gas”, Brocade Morgane Boulard, the Amazon CFDT . This is valid for them, but not for us? “Trade unions also repeat that Jeff Bezos’s business was 57% in 2021, $ 33 billion (€ 30 billion).
The Intersyndical remains” unie ”
On the other trading points, the management noted the retirement bonus, but the unions see only a return to a bonified offer (6,400 euros net, according to an elected representative), already accessible in previous years. The direction, it maintains that its offer is “very attractive”. And greater than the increases of the branch or large companies in general (the budgets devoted to the obligatory negotiations are up 2.35% in March, according to the Deloitte cabinet).
With the 2% increase for the 2021 negotiations, the salary at Amazon has increased by 5.5% in two years, almost as much as the 6% SMIC increase between October and May 2022. Amazon List Also the other advantages: 13 e month, premium of 150 euros at the end of the year, a free action per year (to 2 900 euros in 2022) … the management finally emphasizes that the strikers (2,000 Cumulative people on fourteen days, for 12,500 warehouse employees) are “not majority”.
The Intersyndical, which remains “united”, must now decide the continuation. In the absence of a signature, the company can decide unilaterally. Will employees want to mobilize more? “The question of the renewable strike, continuously,” says Laurent Degousée, from the South Federation, adding that the situation in Amazon is “externally scrutinized”.