Several hundred people demonstrated on Saturday in Issoudun (Indre) against the threat that hangs over nearly 500 jobs in two logistics platforms belonging to the clothing brand La Halle.
In the presence of many elected officials girded with their tricolor scarves, the "civic march" rocked behind a large banner of the inter-union where one could read "The Market, dead of two logistics depots".
Departing from the warehouse, on the outskirts, the procession crossed the city, marking a stop in front of the hospital center in support of caregivers, before reaching the town hall where speeches took place.
"When we say 487 jobs, it's often 487 families"
This demonstration, "it is the first strike of a combat, the first phase of a mobilization which it is necessary to know to organize in the duration", affirmed André Laignel (PS), mayor of the commune since 1977. "Behind each job is affected by a woman, a man and an entire family. And when we say 487 jobs, it's often 487 families, "said the elected official in a video posted on his Facebook page.
Also mentioning the subcontractors, the mayor of Issoudun estimated that a total of “750, 800 jobs” could be affected. "This is the order of magnitude of the disaster that we would like to announce to us today," he insisted.
Weakened by two months of closure during confinement, La Halle was placed in the safeguard procedure on April 21. Its owner, the Vivarte group, ended up asking for bankruptcy at the end of May.
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Seven takeover offers were made, but none for the Issoudun (shoes) and Montierchaume (clothes) warehouses, near Châteauroux, where 285 and 202 employees work respectively.
