Thursday, November 27, 2014

Goodyear: no buyer for the Amiens North plant – L’Observateur

Goodyear: no buyer for the Amiens North plant – L'Observateur

Amiens (AFP) – The tire giant Goodyear announced Thursday the final discussions with US equipment failure Titan, signaling the end of the last hopes of saving a few hundred of the 1,143 jobs lost during the closure of its Amiens North plant in January.

“I can say today that any discussion with a potential buyer, including Titan, is over,” said Jean-Philippe Cavaillé, in an exclusive interview Amiens with Le Courrier Picard.

The decision, he said “final” and “irrevocable” primarily concerns Titan, the US supplier, “a strong partner Goodyear” which s’ has long expressed interest in the business recovery site agricultural tires.

A first draft of recovery had ended in failure there two years after its rejection by the CGT held to remind Mr. Cavaillé Thursday.

“In recent months, we again approached the Titan group to try a new and final time, to find a solution to the Amiens-Nord website In a difficult economic environment, “said HRD, indicating that the ultimate failure of the discussions was very new

.” We had three goals: to ensure that the plant could be reopened that jobs are guaranteed, that the sustainable business to develop. We have not managed to find common ground with Titan. This is definitely finished, there will be no site of recovery, “he declared.

Nearly 330 employees were likely to be hired by Titan and its CEO, Maurice Taylor.

In October 2013, before the closure of the plant at the end of a long and bitter struggle of six years between the CGT and Goodyear, Minister of Productive Recovery Arnaud Montebourg, asserted that he had received a partial takeover offer Site amiénois by Mr. Taylor. This is despite the passage of arms that had opposed a few months earlier after harsh words from American on some hard work of French workers.

In January, the plant closed, the Minister considered that the agreement between the CGT and Goodyear “now opens up the possibility of the arrival of Titan and M . Maurice Taylor had asked that the conflict (…) is finally ended. “

Titan recovery rumors had begun to circulate these last weeks, the CGT had assured that it would nothing to block, up to say that his delegates wished not to work on the site.

When asked this week by AFP, Maurice Taylor had assured “that nothing was going on between Titan and Goodyear “and promises of the CGT are changed anything.

He again denounced the French labor law that had allowed, he said, the CGT pursue justice in Goodyear obtain more allowances after the signing of an agreement ending the conflict.

“You can never say never”, but it can not be a recovery, “unless someone changes the laws “Had he said.

Mr. Taylor also indicated that he “had never been in contact with Emmanuel Macron,” the successor to Mr. Montebourg in government.

Today, 1,008 former employees are affected by the redeployment leave which ends in February 2015 while a few weeks ago, the labor inspectorate overturned the dismissal of 42 elected staff

The CGT has initiated several legal proceedings. action labor court to invalidate the reason for redundancy -audience January 22 in Amiens- and group action in the United States on occupational diseases.

Goodyear does not want to communicate about these procedures.

Now, after discussions to find a buyer, “we must focus all our energy to find a solution for each employee,” he said simply HRD.

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