Paris (France) (AFP) – Several hundred employees of SFR and subsidiaries of parent company Altice France gathered Tuesday morning in front of the group's headquarters, called to strike to weigh on their conditions of recovery while the operator prepares to be sold to its competitors.
Published on: 03/11/2026 - 1:29 p.m.
According to the Unsa union, around 6,500 employees of the group were on strike at midday.
"There is this takeover project and today we are not informed of the consequences (...) Unfortunately, we do not know precisely what will happen for us", tells AFP Laure, an employee for 15 years at SFR, who did not wish to give her name.
Among the employees gathered in front of the headquarters of the Altice France group, in the southwest of Paris, several employees wore a t-shirt with the message “SFR is us”, the slogan of the mobilization.
After a first half-day strike at the end of September, the inter-union formed by Unsa, the CFDT and the CFTC, this time called on all employees of the operator, stores and technical subsidiaries (ATS), to stop working all day.
“What we are asking for is a real reclassification policy, offering three positions for each employee,” says Abdelkader Choukrane, general secretary of Unsa and central union representative of SFR.
After the memorandum of understanding on the sale of the operator for 20.35 billion euros between Altice France and Bouygues Telecom, Iliad (Free) and Orange, the unions entered into discussions with the consortium of three buyers to discuss the future of employees.
According to several staff representatives, they received a proposal on Saturday, the first formulated in writing, taking up the elements discussed during the meetings held since the beginning of the summer.
But this does not satisfy the unions, who are asking in particular, in addition to the three proposals for recovery by employees, to increase compensation in the event of departure.
“It is not at all at the level of these three companies which could really put in more resources,” comments Olivier Lelong, CFDT central union delegate.
Elected officials also demand that Altice France management open negotiations on the future of the technical subsidiary teams, excluded from the sales scope, and of which several employees were present on Tuesday morning.
“We would have liked them to tell us if we really will have a job at the end,” explains Sendé, an employee of one of these subsidiaries for 12 years, who also did not wish to give her name.
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