They are upwind. The leaders of the CGT and the CFDT both called on Tuesday the government to intervene with the telecoms equipment supplier Nokia, so that it reverses its decision to cut 1233 jobs in France in its subsidiary Alcatel-Lucent.
"The state must say: no question of cutting jobs, we must keep these jobs in France!" ", Pleaded on France Inter the general secretary of the CGT, Philippe Martinez. Nokia "receives public aid", via the tax credit for competitiveness and employment (CICE), "so the state must intervene," he said.
An argument also put forward by his CFDT counterpart, Laurent Berger: since the Finnish equipment supplier benefits from the "research tax credit" on its French subsidiary, which makes its jobs as engineers in France "cheaper than in other countries" other OECD countries ", the state is" entitled [...] to require that Nokia behaves correctly ", he insisted on BFM Business.
"It is not acceptable, one cannot play yo-yo with the employees in this way", further blasted Laurent Berger, observing that Nokia, like other companies, "uses in a certain way "The pretext of the epidemic crisis" to make social plans that are unacceptable ". He pleaded for "resolute state action", and warned against a temptation to speak of "fatality".
Emmanuel Macron had signed up
For his part, Philippe Martinez lambasted "the return of stock market layoffs", observing that "the telecoms sector is one of the sectors that did not suffer from this period of confinement".
"The state can do something, otherwise we find ourselves in a situation as before", when the public authorities admitted their helplessness in situations like this, he said. On this point, "the world of tomorrow must not be the same as the world of yesterday," he argued.
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When Alcatel-Lucent was bought by Nokia in 2016, the then Minister of the Economy, "whose name was Emmanuel Macron", promised that the jobs concerned would remain in France, said the leader of the CGT.
