Management SNCM Tuesday presented to employee representatives of the shipping company in difficulty a new “exploitation scheme” including in the removal of 800 1 000 jobs during a meeting at the Prefecture of the Bouches-du-Rhone, according to union sources.
“Under the pretext of the European litigation, management presented a development scheme with 800-1 000 jobs abolished and no warranty for the balance “ staff, told AFP Frédéric Alpozzo, CGT representative marine, denouncing a government ” that behaves like a rogue patron ” .
“Management has reported 750 to 800 job losses. This is the first time she puts the figure even if it is only a draft, independently of a possible buyer. Direction, probably on target shareholders, had so far declined to such a figure, even though it had certainly set in his projects. It was time for this to be said … “, said on his part AFP Maurice Perrin, representative of the CFE-CGC, after 6 hours of meeting labor-management-shareholder prefecture, around the government mediator Gilles Aries.
“Management must also assess the cost of such a project, which is only based on manipulation of assumptions” warned Maurice Perrin.
Threat of bankruptcy
SNCM’s 2,000 employees, including about 400 CSD, many of whom are regularly.
According to Frederic Alpozzo, shareholders raises specter of going “by force” to the receivership, if the Deposit (joint shareholder with Veolia Transdev, the main shareholder society, ed) withdrew its credit line to the company. “This is criminal” , has he denounced : “We are in a bankruptcy and dismantling organized by the shareholder and the State for the benefit of Corsica Ferries’ , the competitor SNCM. “The mediator, in the introduction as the conclusion of the meeting, noted that he had no means of its mission if everything is decided at Transdev” , lamented echoing Frédéric Perrin.
“Government officials came without any serious response” , found Maurice Alpozzo.
The management was not available in the evening, while that the Ombudsman did not wish to speak at the conclusion of the meeting.
The option of bankruptcy is favored by Transdev and state who believe it is the only solution to overcome the convictions of Brussels. The European Commission asked the company to pay 440 million euros of aid wrongly levied, according to Brussels.
A new meeting is scheduled on October 28, as part of this process launched in July by the government mediator to break a 17-day strike that paralyzed traffic in the company between Corsica and the mainland tourist season.
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