They don’t let go. Since Monday, delivery drivers from an Amazon service provider have been blocking the warehouse of the American e-commerce giant located in Briec, Finistère. Angry, the demonstrators demand the payment of their wages. Questioned, a driver working for the company NGS Express, based in Seine-Saint-Denis, claims to have received no salary in March and not to have been paid “several weeks” since the end of October. According to this protester, only parcels are blocked. Amazon employees and empty trucks can drive in and out. If you were ever waiting for a package in your mailbox, you may have to wait.
Without hearing from their boss since mid-March, the 37 employees of NGS Express continued to work for Amazon until the end of March. They decided to block the site when they learned that they would no longer have access to the warehouse from April 23. A spokeswoman said that Amazon had notified the end of the contract with NGS Express in early March for “non-compliance with contractual obligations”. “We are adamant that our delivery partners must adhere to the Amazon Supplier Code of Conduct and our contractual obligations,” she said.
Me Franck Carpentier, lawyer for the employees, indicated that a report had been sent to the labor inspectorate and that he was going to urgently seize the commercial court of Bobigny and the industrial tribunal of Quimper “in order to try to obtain payment of sums due. The Briec site, near Quimper, is Amazon’s only warehouse in Brittany. Opened at the end of October 2022, it covers 6,000 m2, according to the group.