Trade unions urge employees of La Poste to organise strikes

Three French trade unions, CGT, SUD and FO, have urged the 20,000 staff employed in back offices of the financial services of La Poste, the French postal service, to organise strikes in order to protest against plans to set up a postal bank. This is the first time that staff of the company’s 19 regional financial service centres will be able to say whether or not they are prepared to accept the creation of the new postal bank.

CFDT, another trade union, has also called for strikes in order to demand guarantees regarding employment, such as a long-term recruitment plan and an end to job cuts. Although trade unions say that they are in favour of the company’s plans to widen its range of services, they do not believe that the creation of a credit institution is necessarily the right way to achieve this.