The trade unions of the factory Whirlpool Amiens were first believed to be a joke. When they asked for a wage increase of 4 % for 286 employees at the meeting of the mandatory annual negotiations, Wednesday 28 march, the management has proposed… a clothes dryer.
“We pay with a dryer, we had never seen it ! Is it that we pay the butchers ham slices ?, indignant Frederic Chanterelle, delegate CFDT. This is foutage of mouth. We want the purchasing power, not diy. “