Lidl France: Unions launch unlimited strike for "decent working conditions"

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Several months after the launch of a social movement well supported by employees, this Thursday, May 15, marks the beginning of a new strike led by an inter-union organization, this time on the principle of a "rolling" mobilization.

Lidl employees on strike on February 7, gathered at the company's logistics platform in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier. (Pablo Chignard/Libération)

Three months after a first significant strike movement , the social situation at Lidl is not calming down . Some employees of the large retail giant left their posts, sometimes holding placards, this Thursday, May 15, to express their indignation at working conditions which, they say, are deteriorating. At the beginning of the week, a joint union (CFDT, CGT, CFTC and FO) denounced in a leaflet an "exponential increase in the workload" of employees, which "ruins [their] health" as well as "the obligation to work on Sundays and public holidays." The management is in fact planning to make this work, until now based on volunteering, compulsory from June 1.

Determined to toughen their stance, the unions are now calling for a new

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