It’s hot for fresh food in Auchan supermarkets in eastern France. The CFDT Alsace indeed began Tuesday evening near Strasbourg the blocking of an Auchan refrigerated platform supplying supermarkets in the east of France with fresh products, as part of the protest against the pension reform.
About twenty members of the CFDT parked vehicles in front of the entrance to the site located in Vendenheim, thus preventing trucks from coming to carry out their loading, or from taking the road to supermarkets. “They don’t want to let us go out, to prevent us from delivering the stores,” Alahasana Cissé, a 33-year-old driver, told AFP. km from the refrigerated platform.
“Here, there are all the frozen foods, fresh products and fruits and vegetables for Auchan,” he said. “I understand their action, there have already been several strikes, but Mr. Macron is turning a deaf ear to make us work longer,” he said.
Blockage until Saturday
The lockdown is set to last until Saturday, which could cause shortages of fresh produce in some stores powered by the platform. The CFDT Alsace had already organized, at the end of March, the blocking of another platform, of the Lidl brand. “This pension reform, we do not want it. It seems important to us that the mobilization continues: everything is not settled, so we will play the cards we have in hand until the end, ”said Stéphane Béguin, head of the CFDT Alsace wood construction federation. “Since it is not by marching in the street that we are making things happen, obviously, we are going to try to block the economy. Here, 47 trucks are expected overnight, but no goods will come out,” he added.
“Many of our activists and sympathizers are asking for this type of action. We therefore chose to block, but calmly, we do not want it to degenerate ”. On the spot, a dozen gendarmes were present. When questioned, they did not report any overflow.