Call to strike on Tuesday at BNP Paribas

Five unions of BNP Paribas, the leading French and European banking group, have called for a strike on Tuesday to protest against the deterioration of working conditions and the lack of a general increase in wages, trade union sources told AFP on Thursday, confirming a news report. Echoes.

The inter-union formed by SNB / CFE-CGC (1st union in the company), CFDT (2nd), CGT (3rd), FO (4th) and CFTC (5th, unrepresentative), calls in a communicated the employees to disengage "one hour, two hours or more" on December 4 to shout their "fed up" to a management today too far from (their) daily professional and unaware of the difficulties "encountered because of the "lower purchasing power".

"It is rare for the five unions to call for a strike," said Joel Debeausse, SNB deputy national union delegate of BNP Paribas, contacted by AFP.

"Different aspects motivate the annoyance" of employees, says François Besnard, CGT, citing management's decision not to revalue salaries in 2019, after a general increase of + 0.6% in 2018. Employees However, they will receive a profit-sharing supplement at the end of the year of approximately 400 to 1,000 euros, depending on the salary. Management states that individual increases will be 1.5% in 2019, as in 2018.

"A lot of malaise at work"

The CGT also evokes "a lot of employees at the end of the road, a lot of malaise at work" amid a "lack of staff" in all sectors, against the backdrop of branch closures in retail banking . "We ask employees to work more and more, and at the level of the workforce it does not always follow so we end up with employees who are suffering because their workload is too high", abounds Joel Debeausse, SNB. "We have reached the breaking point, there is a general sluggishness, all statuses combined," he warns.

"We are in a period of transformation that is demanding for everyone," admitted Yves Martrenchar, director of human resources of BNP Paribas, interviewed by AFP. "But we support our employees a lot in this transformation (…) In all the teams where there may be decreases in the number of employees, training and internal mobility are favored each time to propose reclbadifications in the company. "he said. The management says it wants, after December 4, to exchange with the unions "on the day-to-day functioning and the working conditions to bring them answers".