Thousands of Nokia employees demonstrated Wednesday in Paris, not far from the National Assembly, to protest against the announced reduction of 1,233 jobs in France, found an AFP journalist.
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The demonstrators, many of whom came from Lannion (Côtes d'Armor) by special TGV, paraded behind a banner " Le Trégor standing up against job cuts ". In the procession, the CFDT, CGT and CFE-CGC banners stood next to the placards, one of which said: " Hired in March, poached in June ".
Wages deplore the absence of industrial justification
The Finnish telecoms equipment supplier plans to cut 402 jobs in Lannion (Côtes-d'Armor) and 831 in Nozay (Essonne) in 2021 as part of a voluntary departure plan and with " reclassification solutions ", according to management . " It's a betrayal, I'm disgusted, " said Nicolas Savard, 38, hired on a permanent contract in Lannion just before confinement. “ There is no industrial justification. Nokia is relocating products that worked very well, "he said.
“ It is clear that Nokia had this project since its acquisition of Alcatel Lucent 4 years ago. They bought the patents, which they knew very well how to make fruit, and gained with Alcatel Lucent a precious establishment in the United States. They did not need the French employees of Alcatel ”, regretted Jean-François Schmitt of CFE-CGC.
This demonstration was organized after those of Nozay (Essonne) on June 30 and that of Lannion, Saturday, which gathered between 3,500 and 5,000 people. CFDT secretary general Laurent Berger was to join the demonstrators at midday.