Strike in Châtel-Saint-Denis
Samvaz employees demand the intervention of the canton
Samvaz Bois strikers on Monday distributed leaflets and launched a petition. They require “immediate intervention” from the Friborg Council of State.
Employees protest in front of the Samvaz factory to obtain a social plan.
KEYSTONE
- Employees protest in front of the Samvaz factory to obtain a social plan.
- The strikers ask for the intervention of the State Councilor Olivier Curty.
- Management refuses negotiations and considers the strike as illicit.
- The Unia union denounces wage discrimination against women.
The employees of the Bois de Samvaz SA department in Châtel-Saint-Denis intensified their strike movement on Monday, distributing leaflets from 6 a.m. and launching a petition to obtain a social plan, according to “Freedom». The strikers, dismissed for the end of September and on work stoppage since Friday, ask “an immediate intervention” of the State Councilor Olivier Curty, in charge of the economy, to impose the opening of negotiations with management.
The twenty strikers, supported by Unia Friborg, went in procession in front of the metal plant which houses the management of the company. They denounced what they call “irresponsible direction”. The Union of Public Services and the Friborg Union Union have supported demonstrators, as is the president of the Cantonal Socialist Party Thomas Gremaud, who also invited Olivier Curty to go there.
“Transparency” defended by management
Alexandre Mittaz, technical director of Samvaz, maintains that the company no longer wishes to negotiate social plan. Management claims to have informed its employees of the metal department “transparent” and “based on facts”, without preventing them from discussing with the union or the strikers.
Aude Spang, member of the feminist strike and the anti -capitalist Friborg collective, accused the bosses of “put in their pocket the profits generated by workers” and of having “discriminated against women and non -Swiss staff by apparently paying them lower wages”.
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