Their mobilization does not weaken. After a month of "determined" chambermaids' strike at the Ibis Batignolles hotel in Paris, around thirty people gathered this Saturday noon outside the doors of the establishment to obtain a drop in work rates.
"We are here, we are here", "What do we want? Our rights", "STN rogue": accompanied by whistles and drums, the chambermaids of the subcontractor STN, joined by employees other companies, despite the rain, showed their anger against "back pain" and "the abuse of subcontracting".
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In post "for a year and three months" in this hotel, the second largest Ibis in France and in Europe after that of Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, Djeneba Diallo explains that "overtime is not paid ", while they are ordered to clean more rooms than "the 21 per day provided for by the contract" for six hours of work. "If we don't want to, they threaten us. We have to make 36, 37 rooms a day...", she adds.
Instead of "three and a half rooms to do in one hour", the strikers want to go down to "three rooms per hour", specifies Mama Ndiaye, who suffers from tendonitis after "ten years" at the Ibis Batignolles. And "one large room" should be worth "two rooms", adds Rachel Keke, an activist like her colleagues at the CGT of prestige and economic hotels (CGT-HPE), the union which supports the movement.
"We also want a time clock to be paid per hour of work and not by the number of rooms", continues Rachel Keke, also afflicted with tendonitis in one arm.
While the hotel of "706 rooms is packed" during this summer vacation period, every day "except Sunday", the strikers come to demonstrate in front of the establishment, says Rachel Keke. Customer reaction? Some "insult us", but others "understand us, encourage us, put money in the box" of the support kitty, underlines the activist, "ready to continue" the strike "until we are satisfied".
