The shortage of manpower could disrupt the resumption of the activity of the aeronautical subcontractors of Berry. When Airbus increases production rates to recover, then surpass, by 2024, its production volumes, the corporate fabric itself, is still undergoing the consequences of the Covid crisis.
There is a know-how that is gone
This is the case with the electronics specialist specializing in sensors for Auxitrol aircraft. A year ago, the Bourges company ejected 120 people during a social plan, and separated from 70 temporary workers. “There is a know-how that is gone, especially on defrosted probes. In this sector, it is true that we had problems delivering the parts. I even learned that they had asked to d ‘former employees who were not following training to come back “, book Ludovic Désarbres, CFDT delegate of the company.
An urgent reaction that leaves a lot of room for uncertainty according to Dominique Bussière, union representative at the equipment manufacturer Safran Seats in Issoudun:“We are not immune that there are people who may have left the department to find work elsewhere.”
The new generation is missing
On the side of Aérocentre, the association of the aeronautical industry in Center-Val de Loire, we fear that a chronic brain and labor shortage. “We have our eyes riveted on the training courses we have in the region. On the last start of the school year, there were not as many candidates as we would have hoped for in industrial courses. There is a certain amount of concern about the fact that we have lost competence and when in the pipes, there is not that much to fill the next generations “, worries Jean-Michel Sanchez, president of Aérocentre.
To put themselves in order of battle, more and more subcontractors are merging. Last July, the Aubigny-sur-Nère Mécachrome giant began a campaign to buy out its competitors, starting with the Hitim company.