40% partial unemployment in the first semester for the employees of MG Valdunes Leffrinckoucke and Trith St Léger

In 2021, Sébastien Taccoen CGT delegate in Leffrinckoucke recorded 70 to 80 days of unemployment, for 5/6 years the factory has been idling, so the announcement of the Extraordinary EC this morning knocked him out even more. He is only going to work 2 weeks per month, enough to cut back even more from his salary paid at 84%

Already that we do not have amazing salaries, so the little that we take away is enormous, 200-300 euros. People losing money, I think it might explode

The trade unionist recalls that to achieve a balance at the forge it is 60,000 wheels per year, while this year, forecasts count on only 22,000 wheels, so he is not very optimistic for the survival of his site.

A site on which the Trith-Saint-Léger site depends, where the situation was already tense with a 40% drop in orders with the Covid according to the Cgt, but with the explosion in the price of electricity it is the last straw. too much according to Maxime Savaux CGT delegate

On the Dunes site, it’s X 7 energy, it’s no longer possible! Covid, lack of orders, now energy is the combo to bankrupt Valdunes

Ludovic Bouvier, regional secretary of CGT Métallurgie therefore calls on the state as the main shareholder of SNCF, so that the railway company orders from Valdunes the only factory that manufactures wheels for the railway in France.. SNCF, a former main customer who left the northern factories in favor of Spain, Italy or the Czech Republic, except for a contract of 6,000 euros over 2 years.

An appointment is also set for January 24 with Xavier Bertrand, the president of the region.

And on the 31st in addition to this partial unemployment, the Chinese shareholder could present other measures in his savings plan during the works council.


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