"Do we want to go to Flins?" No! " Microphone in hand, perched on a flowerpot in front of the security post, Brahim Hachouche faces dozens of employees of the Renault factory in Choisy gathered again. Friday, the deputy central delegate FO at Renault and employee in Choisy learned like his colleagues that the site was going to close, with transfer of its activity to Flins (Yvelines). News which pushes them this Tuesday to block the factory since 6 am.
“No more trucks come in,” explains this employee, one of the 260 or so who work on this particular site because they specialize in “standard exchange”, the refurbishment of parts for Renault’s after-sales management, Nissan Europe, and Daimler, then sold at lower cost. A site for which the group plans to "develop skills in the Paris region", as the president of the car manufacturer, Jean-Dominique Senard, clarified this weekend.
"Since Friday's announcement, we don't know more"
His planned shutdown is one of the measures in the 2 billion-euro savings plan over three years unveiled by the car group, which will cut 4,600 jobs in France. There is talk of the transfer of this activity to Flins (2,600 employees), where the shutdown of automobile production would be scheduled around 2024. "Since Friday's announcement, we don't know more," explains this other employee.
The union officials of the site must be received Tuesday afternoon by the PCF mayor of the city Didier Guillaume. "We will see how we can mobilize the population," said the elected official. Several were again on the spot Tuesday morning like the deputy LFI Mathilde Panot or the person in charge of the PCF 94 Fabien Guillaud Bataille.
