The government is not relieving the pressure on Bridgestone.
He has no intention of letting the tire manufacturer close its factory in Béthune (Pas-de-Calais) without trying anything and witnessing the disappearance of 863 jobs.
When the Japanese group announced without warning on September 16 its plan to
"cease the activity of its Béthune plant"
in 2021, the Minister of Labor, Élisabeth Borne, the Minister for Industry, Agnès Pannier-Runacher , and the president of the Hauts-de-France region, Xavier Bertrand, immediately reacted with one voice, stressing
“their disagreement with this announcement”.
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The Bridgestone affair falls badly as the government has made reindustrialisation one of the strong points of its recovery plan.
Not to be satisfied with small sentences, Agnès Pannier-Runacher mandated the firm Accenture to examine the alternative scenarios to the closure of the plant.
On Monday, the minister brought together the unions and
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