A Milee employee sums up his anguish in this formula: “We have the impression of being invisible, a fourth world. » The company that distributes leaflets to mailboxes has been in liquidation since September 9. “There are 10,100 people in the room, it is the biggest social catastrophe in forty years in this country, how is it possible that it is not the opening news of all the news in France? »Sébastien Bernard, central union delegate of the CGT, is outraged. Especially since some of the employees have not even received their last salary. “Some are without income. And we don’t know when they will be paid! », the chosen one insists.
To try to attract attention, several dozen of them, coming from Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine), Rouen (Seine-Maritime), Niort (Deux-Sèvres) or Brive-la-Gaillarde (Corrèze), had arranged a meeting . in front of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, in Paris, on Tuesday, October 8. “The rest no longer have enough to buy food, let alone pay for a ticket to Paris”, Jean-Paul Dessaux, federal secretary of the SUD-PTT, comments into the microphone.
After him speaks Marie-Ange Goyard, 37 years old, two children, distributor in the Roanne warehouse (Loire): “Do you know what my man is going to do this afternoon, like every Tuesday? He’s going to Restos du coeur! I did hours for Milee… They always paid us approximate times. And with my personal car, despite the increase in gasoline prices… Marie-Ange is not a source of income, what she wanted was to work with dignity! » She breaks down crying.
No unemployment benefit
Most distributors worked part-time, earning the minimum hourly wage. Among them are many vulnerable people, single mothers, workers who do occasional jobs or retirees who supplement their meager pensions. For the latter, no unemployment benefits are granted: “I’m going to have to make do with the hours of cleaning I still do…”, explains Nicole Fromage, 74 years old. Around 1,700 employees are over 70 years old, according to Sud-PTT, which calls for exceptional assistance to be provided to them..
“There is enormous hypocrisy on the part of political leaders and businessmen who knew the situation, but since the employees are very precarious and dispersed throughout the country, they said to themselves “We are calm, no one is going to react””, the general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet, told the employees indignantly.
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