2023-06-28 16:41:00
The socialist union, at the origin of the action, denounces the plan to reorganize services. “We have been asking the company to discuss a new distribution model for months,” points out Emmanuel Despat, Luxembourg regional secretary of the CGSP. “For 23 years, we have been working with an obsolete system. We want to discuss and find a suitable solution, but the company makes us understand that it will be taken over.”
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According to the union representative, the picketing should continue in the coming days. “The situation is serious,” he insists. “It’s time for the company to sit down to eat”, while, according to him, a joint committee scheduled for last Friday has been canceled and moved to Tuesday July 4.
The postal company, for its part, explains that it has to evolve to become a global player in e-commerce logistics, which is moreover in the current context, made up of a number of parcels which is constantly increasing while mail volume is down.
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Therefore, on a regular basis, it must carry out reorganizations in the distribution of mail, which are announced and prepared in consultation with the teams and the representatives of the workers, assures Bpost.
“A representative trade union organization (the CGSP, editor’s note) however demands that the reorganizations in their current form be stopped”, deplores the company. She says she hears the concerns of the workers and maintains the dialogue with all of their representatives to find solutions.
According to Bpost, some workers are blocking the outgoing of the product (letters, newspapers and packages), including urgent mail, such as results and medical samples and tax declarations. An action that affects sorting centers in Brussels and Wallonia as well as several distribution offices.
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“Most of our employees are prevented from working,” said the company, claiming to respect the right to strike. “However, blocking pickets that take workers and customers hostage and endanger the viability of the company constitute an illegal obstruction of work, which management cannot accept.”
The consequences of the current situation are also “heavy”, regrets the company. Sorting centers are indeed faced with a significant accumulation of volumes. In Wallonia and Brussels, Bpost is therefore obliged to interrupt the deposit and collection of products from private and business customers. This decision will also have an impact in Flanders, she warns.
Bpost “maintains social dialogue to find solutions that guarantee the viability of the company, the sustainability of employment and the well-being of workers”, concludes the company.
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