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General Electric despairs of Belfort but happy with Cherbourg and Saint-Nazaire

2020-10-23T19:12:52.523Z


Faced with the energy revolution, GE is hiring in wind power in France, but is reducing its workforce in hydroelectricity, gas and networks. Restructuring painfully experienced in Belfort.


New strategic orientation in energy, new workforce reductions, new event.

This Saturday, the unions of General Electric (GE), with the exception of the CGT, call to parade in the streets of Belfort.

With the hope of repeating the success of the procession of June 2019, which had gathered between 5,000 and 8,000 people.

At the time, it was a question of protesting against the announcement by the American industrialist of a social plan affecting 792 jobs in gas turbines, linked to the decline of this activity.

A plan reduced to 485 people after months of tension and the intervention of Bercy.

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Today, the cuts are much smaller: 89 jobs will be cut in Belfort in the hydroelectric branch of GE, as part of a European restructuring of this ailing sector.

The group has also announced its exit from coal, which should affect the city at the margin.

But if the numbers are low, the accumulation effect is real, and the concerns lingering.

So

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Source: lefigaro

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