The 340 steelworkers of SAM, Renault's Aveyron subcontractor in cessation of activity for lack of a buyer, began occupying their factory on Tuesday, planning to spend the holidays on the site "
to protect the machines
".
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The bankrupt company was liquidated on November 26. A few days earlier, Renault had announced its decision not to support the takeover project by one of the former executives, considering that it "
does not present (have) the necessary conditions of sustainability and security
". On the other hand, the manufacturer had announced that it would continue "
the dialogue with SAM employees in order to offer them alternative employment solutions within the Renault Group
". "
We will be spending Christmas and New Year's Eve there to protect the machines so they don't get sold.
", Told AFP David Gistau, one of the CGT representatives of the Aveyron company of metallurgy (SAM) installed in Viviez, on the heights of the former mining basin of Decazeville.
“Indecent” reclassification proposals
"
From Renault, we have nothing, it was only words
", added David Gistau, stressing that the employees had symbolically burned Tuesday afternoon the proposals for the reclassification of judicial representatives that they have just received and that they deem "
indecent
". “
A two-month fixed-term contract in Toulouse for someone who lives in Decazeville, a production engineer position offered to a secretary or job offers in foundries at the other end of France ... what we want is to live and work in the country,
”says the trade unionist, who expects the first letters of dismissal to arrive“
next week
”.
Taken over in 2017 by the Chinese group Jinjiang, SAM was placed in receivership on December 10, 2019, then, on September 16, in liquidation with extension of activity.
A new rally of support is scheduled for Thursday in front of the factory.
Last week, several thousand people, including the leader of the CGT Philippe Martinez, gathered in Viviez to denounce "
the breakage
" of this industrial site.
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