Pierre Streiff, 62, was previously chairman of MEDEF-38, after having been president of the construction federation 38. He runs a construction company created in 1987. Today it employs 300 people. He answers questions from Gérard Fourgeaud.
France Bleu Isère: Pierre Streiff, hello, until now you were president of MEDEF, this afternoon, you will be president of the CCI. What will be your first measurement?
Pierre Streiff: Above all, making the voice of companies heard at the level of territorial decisions, structuring and developing the strategic sectors of the territory and following the reductions in tax resources that the CCIs have suffered in recent years, we have to restructure and of course compensate for these reductions through the creation of new vocational training courses. (Paying, editor’s note)
The CCI necessarily has a role to play in helping companies to get out of these lockdowns that have followed one another, and the crisis is not over?
This crisis has also enabled us to reorient ourselves, to reorganize ourselves. There are new ways of working that have emerged.
The lack of recruitment of personnel is very important, and yet there are between three and five million unemployed according to calculations. To fill it, does it go through training?
Yes of course, that requires training and companies have a lot of needs, but that does not adapt all the time. This requires training for the positions that companies offer.
Where will your rise to represent the profession, the world of economics end?
Me, I am a business manager and if I have done all these mandates at the level of the BTP, MEDEF and now the CCI, it is because I am a true Grenoble native, and when I created my company in 1987, the former heads of these professional organizations helped me. Today I have a group of almost 300 people, while I left with ten or fifteen people. This development, it is not me, alone, who made it. Of course, they are mainly my collaborators, but I have also been helped by the professional organizations to which I belong.
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