“
Two legal redress in two years, fed up!
“: around fifty employees of the ready-to-wear giant Camaïeu, in receivership two years after its takeover, demonstrated Monday at the call of the CGT in front of the company’s headquarters in Roubaix (North).
“
We will not allow the dismantling of Camaïeu to take place!
The current shareholder proposes the closure of 200 stores, it is unacceptable
”, launched to the employees Thierry Siwik, national delegate CGT, who castigates “
the bad decisions
” of the shareholder, the Financière immobilière bordelaise, for two years.
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For Thierry Siwik, who ensures that 72 stores are affected by a strike movement in France, the shareholder of Camaïeu "
must change
".
"
Trust is broken
", "
everything is blurry
" in their project, including "
the financing plan
", he added, inviting President Emmanuel Macron to go to the company's headquarters.
“
We are fed up.
Of course, there was the Covid, a cyberattack, generating deficits.
But from there to find ourselves once again in receivership, we have a little trouble swallowing
it, ”laughs Eric Beaudelot, logistics employee.
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“
What we expect in the best of worlds is zero layoffs.
But I think we can always dream.
So what we hope is that the court will do its best to avoid as much social damage as possible
, ”wishes Cindy Ponthieu, logistics employee.
Next commercial court hearing on September 28
The CFDT said for its part that it was not associated with this strike movement.
"
We are in a complicated situation, a little downcast (...) but we are waiting to have information on the continuation plan from our director, we want to do things in order
", said Nordine Misraoui, CFDT delegate , in front of the seat.
Contacted, management declined to comment.
In August 2020, Financière immobilière bordelaise had taken over 511 of the 634 stores in France and around 2,600 employees out of more than 3,100, as part of a sale piloted by the commercial court.
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The new management, which had launched a transformation plan, had given itself two years to restore the company to equilibrium, with the objective of returning to a turnover of 552 million in 2022, at the level of 2019. But according to her, the turnover only reached 333 million over the 16 months after the takeover.
The next commercial court hearing is scheduled for September 28.
