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Nearly 300 angry employees at the headquarters of Hop! In Nantes

2020-07-30T11:01:21.508Z


Between 220 people, according to the police, and 300 according to the CGT, let their anger burst Thursday morning in front of the headquarters of the company Hop !, regional subsidiary of Air France, in Nantes, to say no to job cuts and to the " death of the company, " noted an AFP journalist. This first “ national gathering ” brought together employees from all over France, and in particular from...


Between 220 people, according to the police, and 300 according to the CGT, let their anger burst Thursday morning in front of the headquarters of the company Hop !, regional subsidiary of Air France, in Nantes, to say no to job cuts and to the " death of the company, " noted an AFP journalist. This first “ national gathering ” brought together employees from all over France, and in particular from Morlaix and Lille where the sites are threatened. They started to assemble from 8:00 am in front of the company headquarters.

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Refusing to cut half of the jobs in the company, they installed signs, a coffin with a cross to symbolize "the death of the company" and dismantled, using a sledgehammer, the large metal panel. with the Hop! logo indicating the headquarters of the company. They then burned the sign to the applause of the demonstrators.

No hope for Hop! " , " Hold up organized on provincial flights " , " the French state gravedigger of the air ", could we read on the signs. We would like to have recourse to long-term unemployment to see how air traffic will develop within two years, and to see with the social partners the reconstruction of Hop! », Declared Étienne Guenat, CFDT union representative.

Before an extraordinary CSE scheduled for Friday during which the management must detail the figures of the planned reductions, the unionist expects " a showdown on the number of deleted positions that are disputed ."

Numerous job cuts

According to documents disseminated upstream from the CSE, 1,019 full-time equivalent reductions would be considered: out of 2,421 positions, only 1,402 jobs would remain by 2022, according to the unionist.

“We are promised positions at Air France, but Air France is doing very badly. We are very, very scared, " Pauline Polonceau-Duchene, flight attendant, who fears, in the event of reclassification, " to start from scratch "despite 13 years of service. Around 10:00 am, the demonstrators left in procession from the company's headquarters to Nantes-Atlantique airport.

Struck by the Covid-19 crisis, the Air France group intends to cut more than 7,500 jobs by the end of 2022 according to its new strategy, including around 6,500 within the French company and more than 1,000 within Hop !.

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On July 7 and 8, several hundred people gathered in Morlaix in front of the Hop! Site, as well as in Lille-Lesquin to protest against the closure of the sites.

Source: lefigaro

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