Renault employees at the Choisy-le-Roy site (Val-de-Marne) were on strike Tuesday at the call of the local intersyndicale (FO, CFDT, CGT, CFE-CGC) to protest the announced closure of their site, we learned from union sources.
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“ More than 200 employees ”, out of the 262 on the site in total, “ mobilized to save their jobs ”, had been gathered at 6:00 am local time outside the factory, specializing in the renovation and reconditioning of engines and gearboxes, Brahim Hachouche (FO) told AFP. “ The factory is stopped. We are waiting for someone from central management to explain to us; we have the support of the town hall, ”added Mr. Hachouche, adding that the strike was“ renewable ”.
The angry inter-union
The Choisy site is the only one of the 14 that the industrial group has in France, whose final closure has been announced at this stage by 2022 as part of the savings plan which plans to cut 4,600 jobs in three years in France, i.e. almost 10% of the group's workforce in France. Its activity must be transferred to the Flins site (Yvelines).
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Renault President Jean-Dominique Sénard " must come to the Choisy-le-Roy factory, let him come and present his plan, to which no one understands anything. We will not wait until mid-June for an explanation. It is first of all to Choisy's employees that he owes explanations, not to the media! ", Said the union in a press release. According to Fabien Gache, CGT central delegate (3rd union), " the employees understood that the project had no other purpose than to reduce production capacity and do not intend to let it go ." " It is rather beneficial because beyond employment, it is the activity of Renault as a whole that they defend, " added Mr. Gâche.
According to him, this strike in Choisy-le-Roy is the " prelude to massive actions by all establishments ". A meeting of the intersyndicale (CGC, CFDT, CGT, FO) at the central level took place Tuesday morning " in this sense " and a delegation from the central intersyndicale must go to the Val-de-Marne site on Wednesday. " The objective is to develop other local actions in all the sites and to aim for a more global action of all the employees by integrating engineering, that is to say nearly 15,000 people, still largely in telework ", added Mr. Gâche.
