He misses only the CGT. An agreement was signed on Tuesday between four of the five representative trade union organizations and Amazon France Logistique following the mandatory annual negotiations (NAO), with a salary increase of 7.8% on average, including the value-sharing bonus, according to the online retail giant. The agreement is “largely in the majority”, signed by “four out of five trade unions, [soit] 80% of the votes in the elections”, welcomed AFP the director of human resources of Amazon France Logistics Jon Scott.
This increase includes the value-sharing bonus (PPV, ex-Macron bonus) of 1,000 euros, granted to eligible employees with at least 12 months of seniority and which will be renewed in 2024, according to Amazon. The increase for “the basic salary part only (without bonuses and no other measures) amounts to 4.3% on average for the year 2023”, detailed Jon Scott to AFP. A calculation method decried by the CGT which denounces an artificial inflation of the salary increase by the PPV and which refused to sign the agreement.
Increase “too low” for the CGT
At the end of March, Alain Jeault, CGT Amazon central union representative, had judged this increase “too low compared to inflation”. The CGT also accuses the company of making the payment of the PPV bonus conditional on absenteeism. It thus figures at 2.4% the salary increase for employees between 12 and 24 months of seniority, “which, with the very high turnover in the company, represents a large part of the employees”.
“The PPV (…) can be prorated according to very specific rules. […] We did not seek to apply specific rules, these are the rules applicable in the context of a PPV, ”defended Jon Scott. The latter stressed that in addition, from 2025, workers and supervisors will benefit from a bonus of between 2,000 and 4,000 euros per year from two years of seniority.
In March and early April, protest movements affected several Amazon sites in France in a “convergence of struggles” between NAO and pension reform, the unions explained to AFP. Strikes, walkouts, blockages, filter dams had notably enamelled the daily life of the sites of Boves (Somme), Montélimar (Drôme), Sevrey (Saône-et-Loire), Augny (Moselle). “Today, I have no movement on any site,” said Jon Scott. Amazon employs 18,500 people in France.