” We are here, alive, we will fight ” : several hundred employees of Alstom in the strike, including 300 of the plant in Belfort, protested loudly on Tuesday 27 September at the group’s headquarters in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis), while the government is continuing discussions to attempt to save the factory. In addition to employees belfortains, what are the 9 000 French employees of the group who are called to the strike by the inter-union (CFE-CGC, CGT, CFDT, FO) to protest against the project of the group stop the production of trains to Belfort in the next two years, due to lack of orders.
At the sound of the fog horns, whistles and horns, ” Alsthommes “, – a thousand, according to the CGT, in jackets of grey and red luxurious panels “Alstom” or wearing chasubles of the color, had all a sticker ” Non-closure “, a repeated message on a large banner hanging in the grids.
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” All of the sites together”.
These include : some 300 employees from Belfort by a TGV train specially chartered, a fifty Ornans (Doubs) who joined in Besançon, but also by the employees of other sites (Valenciennes, La Rochelle, Le Creusot, Reichshoffen).
Evidence that ” all Alstom sites are solidarity “, writes Marion Faverger, an engineer with the bureau of studies of Belfort, in the last eight years. the ” The first in a critical situation, it is Belfort, but all are threatened. “
The purpose of this day is ” to say that one is not dead, it is still there and they’re not going to throw us out like that “, explains Florian Gardener, delegate labour Force in Belfort, where several thousand people had demonstrated on Saturday to support the ” Alsthommes “.
Referring to a ” under-load 30% overall on the set of institutions “, the inter-union (CFE-CGC, CGT, CFDT, FO) believes that they are all ” under threat “ and ” all employees “.
Right to alert economic
The central committee has also voted Tuesday to unanimously a law alert economic on the group’s situation in France and the launch of a expertise, before suspending the meeting.
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If ” Belfort is in the light, (…) for us it’s not going strong “, said Jean-Philippe Ducarne, delegate CGT plant of Petite-Forêt near Valenciennes (1 200 employees). There is also ” concern for the site of Aytré “, near la Rochelle, from 2018, according to Philippe Massé, delegate CGT from the factory. In front of this last, more than 200 employees gathered on Tuesday. At le Creusot, they were about 300. At Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis), a delegation was received by management.
the group’s CEO, Henri Poupart-Lafarge, will be auditioned in the early afternoon to the national Assembly by the economic affairs committee. The group railway has announced on 7 September its intention to transfer by 2018, the production of locomotives in Belfort in Reichshoffen, in Alsace, in order to keep on the site franc-comtois as maintenance activities. On the historic site of Belfort, 400 jobs, about 480 are under threat.
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