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Renault: thousands of people demonstrate in Maubeuge against the savings plan

2020-05-30T21:07:23.108Z


The manufacturer's management plans to transfer production of the Kangoo electric utilities to Douai, around 70 km away.


A few thousand people gathered on Saturday morning outside the Renault factory in Maubeuge (Nord), which has been shutdown since Friday morning, to demonstrate against the automaker's decision to cut 15,000 jobs worldwide, including 4,600 in France.

The demonstrators started shortly after 10 am, at the call of the factory inter-union (CGT, CFDT, CFTC, CFE-CGC, South), a march leaving the site to reach the town hall of Maubeuge, about 6 km away. The site employs around 2100 people of all statuses.

" An earthquake "

The manufacturer's management, in difficulty, plans to transfer production of the Kangoo electric utilities to Douai - around 2,900 employees -, around 70 km away, which would inherit a new platform.

“It's an earthquake that is happening. We want to keep our business here. Today this demonstration is very important, even if it is only a first step, to show the government and Renault that the employees and the inhabitants of this district are attached to this company and that we are supported. We need these jobs, otherwise it's a whole territory that will die! "Said Jérôme Delvaux, secretary of the CGT-MCA union.

"We were told that we were the best factory in Europe that we had nothing to fear, and today we are told that we are going to close to put everything in Douai?" We can't let that go… ”, indignant Jean-Marc Pelleriaux, 61, trainer in the retouching area, member of the CGT.

Many elected officials in the procession

"The Kangoo must stay at MCA", "Let us defend our jobs, not the transfer of the factory from Maubeuge to Douai", "Senard: betrayal, Macron: keep your word! Could be read on the banners.

Impressive procession to say no to the relocation of MCA #Maubeuge of the Group @renault_fr pic.twitter.com/Af8FwdBUiH

- ⭐️⭐️ (@thibautpaquit) May 30, 2020

"It is not employers that will make the law, true democracy is here! Also chanted the demonstrators, almost all of whom wore masks. Many elected officials with tricolor scarves also paraded in the procession

Tuesday, some 250 people - elected officials, unionists and employees of the MCA factory in Maubeuge (Maubeuge construction automobile) - including the president of Hauts-de-France Xavier Bertrand had already mobilized. "The fight has only just begun," said Maubeuge DVD mayor Arnaud Decagny.

Source: leparis

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