A union call for a one-day national strike at Unilever France gained little support from workers.
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In a joint statement, entitled “Unilever prospers while its workers suffer,” five unions outlined their rejection of company offer to increase wages by 0.8%, the equivalent of EUR15 for an average salary.
“The response to the strike call was very disappointing with barely 10% of the group’s French workforce staging industrial action, the result being that the impact on Unilever’s business had was negligible,” a CGT union official told just-food yesterday (28 April). “But we remain committed to getting a better deal on wages,” he added.
Unilever France confirmed that there been little support for the strike. The company claimed the real reason Tuesday’s action had been called was “out of solidarity” with striking workers at group subsidiary Fralib’s Lipton brand products plant in Géménos, near Marseille, where production has been at a near-standstill for the past eight weeks.
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