“We have had enough. » Hands plunged into the pockets of his jeans, frozen gaze behind his rectangular glasses, feet firmly anchored on the ground, steady on his supports, Thierry (the people whose name is not mentioned speak on condition of anonymity) does not mince his words. His posture is unmistakable; he has been a security guard for twenty-eight years now. Behind him, posters from the CGT Seris, a private security provider, demand an increase in wages and two-tone flags of the union display the sidewalk. In front of the headquarters of L’Oréal, a Seris client company, Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine), north of Paris, there are around twenty private security agents donning the colors of the union organization, Thursday December 18. “Meeting in front of the cosmetics giant, before the busy holiday season, is a striking symbol to denounce the gap between their earnings and our security guard salaries”proclaims Laurent Dumontier, secretary of the CGT Seris.
In a sector with greater than 180,000 workers, Seris has established itself because the main French group within the property and private safety market with practically 6,000 brokers. The firm is an emblem of the outsourcing that characterizes the sector. A inexpensive system for consumer firms that don’t immediately make use of workers. “Rare firms have an in-house safety division, deciphers Guillaume Farde, professor at Sciences Po and police-justice advisor at LCI-TF1. Since the Nineteen Nineties, firms have turned to exterior service suppliers, comparable to cleansing firms, to realize economies of scale. » A system synonymous with low wages and precarious working circumstances.
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