(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #250 - Louvre
Position: Stamped speculation (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
The destruction of the working class in Paris yet done the damage, the Louvre Poste is an
example. For several years, the postal private company research to grow its property
portfolio including one of its largest - and most symbolic - buildings. No guarantee for
employment ---- The project, designed by Dominique Perrault, architect François Mitterrand
Library plans to install in 35,000 m², Post Louvre, a hotel and restaurants on 6,000 m²,
respectively held by Elegancia Kong and groups. The project also wants to install
open-space offices and shops as well as a logistics hub for surrounding shops including
Les Halles, with the agreement of the Mayor of Paris.
Silence radio mail
Previously, the site hosted a sorting center, which was dismantled and relocated traffic
in Gonesse in the Val-d'Oise; it still hosts various mail delivery sites as well as a
collection center and the famous windows open almost 24h / 24. The six hundred postal
workers and occupying the site are postwomen es forced to leave in order to be sent-es on
different sites without tightest no return guarantee on the Louvre. La Poste and Poste
Immo, real estate manager of the group, have appealed to JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle) to
advise and find investors. The Louvre project remained vague for two years: the Post and
promising agents that they would remain on site while keeping an alarming radio silence on
the workflow, no information passing, not even within the different committee hygiene,
safety and working conditions (CHSCT).
Last February, the Post Office announced that work is suspended because of Lead Risk in
the metal structure that supports building, construction noise and a risk to the basement.
Some days later, she announced that work will start without the agents on site. Still
without any guarantee of employment and staff: a boon to further reduce staff.
Faced with property speculation and gentrification of the urban landscape that erases any
trace of industrial, postal workers unions leave fragmented. On the one hand, part of the
CGT seeks to find social support as a sign of defeat. On the other, the rest of the CGT
and Sud-PTT oppose the Louvre works project, requesting a renewal and a return of postal
activity on the site in line with the decline, real or supposed, traffic. It is in this
last claim, which should be a priority, as postal workers and postwomen libertarian
communists find themselves.
On the back of postal workers
Given this confusion, the workers of the Post-es seem helpless, waiting for a start. It is
urgent that unions harmonize their claims and animate mobilization that officers should
seize quickly. A mobilization that must show that the post office is not omnipotent. A
fight deal with investments that are made on the backs of postal workers and postwomen.
Z. Marollen (Saint Denis)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Poste-du-Louvre-Une-speculation
