In Sablé-sur-Sarthe, workers give up re-mobilizing on Thursday for financial reasons

Appeal of unions to strike and mobilization to put pressure on the future Lecornu government. A mobilization that is coming down compared to last week. Sablé, in Sarthe, brings together 13,000 inhabitants, and 3,000 employees at the giant of the LDC poultry, who has brands like the Gauls or Marie. On September 18, in this city, there were 250 people on the street.

On Thursday, LDC employees spend their turn, they do not make this second day of strike. And the reason is very simple. “There are invoices to pay, there are taxes to pay, and it is not the government that will pay them”, launches an employee. Impossible to lose another day of salary when you earn barely 1,800 euros per month.

September 18, Nicole, Patricia and Stéphanie are “Outings”, As they say. They went on strike to go and demonstrate, but not this time. “It’s not going to be useful at all. When you see what we were, five of the workshop? It’s very little. For the group, it’s a drop of water …”, deplore one.

“The other time, it didn’t bother me, but I’m not going to do it all the time either, because it’s not strong enough. People, they say ‘we’re going to strike, we’re going to go on strike’, but we never see them, Mistigerates his colleague. It’s always the same to go out. And they come after yelling per behind. Do like us, go out! “

Nicole and her colleagues do not mobilize, yet anger is still there. “When you have worked since the age of 16 and you see now that you still have to work until I don’t know how old … We also have the right to have a life ?, Nicole strangles. Are you crossing the road and then did you work? Well, come and make 70 terminals to work, you will see what it is. This is my case, I have no choice, it’s like that. What if we can no longer afford a car, how do we go to work?

“When you start at 4 am, you have to get up at 2 am. Let them come to work with us! Not for a day, for several months, they would see what it is. Aside from our anger, what can we give more? Anyway, we will never be right with them.”

Nicole, employee in Sablé-sur-Sarthe

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Thursday in Sablé-sur-Sarthe, there is therefore not even a procession. In the tiny Algeco which serves as a union premises by Force Ouvrière, the elected officials of the staff are morale in the socks and feel out of step with the national instructions. “It is true that in Paris, it is not the same vision as us. We are in the working world, we are on the ground, says one of them. There are things you see and that they don’t necessarily see. The mouton jumping strike, I want, but we are not going to afford to have three or four days in the month of unpaid. We too need to live and charges to pay. “

This lack of mobilization makes some unfortunate. “Yes because somewhere, it is for them, for their grandchildren, for everyone”, estimates another. Is the strike a now ineffective means of action? “I think it doesn’t happen anymore, people watch the Internet, they don’t watch television, they don’t care about politics, he continues. I have the impression that they no longer get involved, that is no longer their problem. “ “We mobilize a lot for everyone, but there, for the government, it’s Open Bar, apart from the unions, nobody moves”, denounces a third.

“Anger is there, but not mobilization, Adds Nicole. My personal point of view is that we can change Prime Minister every four mornings, as long as we will have Mr. Macron, it will not change. He is him, the decision maker of everything, since he says that he will not resign. For me, it will be played in two years. “ So not in the street today, but in the polls at the next presidential election.