Since the night shifts of Friday evening June 10, the microelectronics company Soitec in Bernin (Isère) has been affected by a strike movement which has been relayed by the weekend and, now, week shifts. Soitec, a manufacturer of semiconductor materials, has approximately 1,500 employees. Its production site operates 24 hours a day, at a pace that has accelerated further in recent years under the effect of the success of its FD-SOI technology and strong global demand for electronic components. A conflict that comes as the company is growing, having just announced that it has reached the billion dollar turnover for the first time in the 2021-2022 financial year and is preparing to change governance next month. Pierre Barnabé, defector from Atos, will succeed Paul Boudre as CEO, in the company since 2007 and CEO since 2015.
The dialogue between management and union is broken this Tuesday evening
The demands concern remuneration, as well as working conditions and management issues. After two negotiation meetings on Monday, a new meeting took place on Tuesday morning which ended in failure. The management made proposals deemed insufficient and the movement was renewed “unanimously“At midday according to Fabrice Lallement, CGT delegate. Since this failure, management has broken ties. A new general meeting of employees is announced at 1 p.m. Wednesday. Pending production is “almost at a standstill“according to Fabrice Lallement. A production which had already suffered the repercussions of the arson of electric cables on the Brignoud bridge a few months ago.