Worldline employees readily acknowledge this: “strike culture” is not in their “DNA”. But in this CAC 40 company as elsewhere, inflation has awakened collective mobilization. For the first time in twelve years, the company specializing in online payment experienced six half-day strikes this fall to protest against proposed salary increases, deemed to be far below expectations, during annual negotiations. requirements anticipated for 2023.
Namely, 0.58% general increase, 3.57% for individual increases and promotions. When inflation reached 6.2% over one year, and the group is doing well, with gross operating income up 25% in 2021. “Frankly, 0.58%, in a company that works like ours, is making fun of us”were indignant strikers at the foot of the company, at La Défense, in Puteaux, on November 8.
While claiming to have listened “carefully” union demands, Worldline management explains to the Worldin writing, having to keep “bearing in mind that it must also guarantee all the rest of the company’s economic balances in the current uncertain macroeconomic context”. The CFTC-CFDT-FO-CGT-CFE-CGC intersyndicale has launched two new strike calls, for “Black Friday”, Friday November 25, and “Cyber Monday”, Monday November 28, two days of sales during which activity is exploding on payment platforms.
1,050 signatures
Everything is automated, but the strikers warn that they will not be there to restore service in the event of an incident. During the last strike, on November 8, the intersyndicale had nearly 400 participants in general meetings, out of 4,000 employees in France (and 18,000 worldwide). In addition, 1,050 of them have signed the petition which brings together their demands. That is a quarter of the workforce.
They are asking for a gross increase of 150 euros per month for everyone (against between 10 euros and 70 euros, proposed by the management in two installments, by July 2023) for “hedge galloping inflation”and 2,500 euros in profit-sharing, for a “more just redistribution of the margin made by the company”. In June, it is the common rejection of a profit-sharing agreement judged “incoherent” who welded the inter-union. Today, management is proposing a “value-sharing premium” from 1,600 to 2,000 euros, which it conditions on the improvement of the group’s margin.
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