"They play with our bread and our family", laments Adel Zorgui, CGT delegate of the factory, microphone in hand, facing the court of Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis).
The union union (CGT, CFDT, Sud) awaits, this Wednesday morning, the hearing which will oppose the CSE to the management of Magnetto Automotive (MA) France, a factory producing auto parts for the Stellantis group, born this year from the merger of PSA and Fiat Chrysler Automobile, based next to the former PSA site in Aulnay-sous-Bois since 2003.
The protest of the unions has been going on since the management's “brutal” announcement last April that six of their forty production lines - the most profitable, according to the unions - would be withdrawn from the Aulnay-sous-Bois site by Stellantis , on a "unilateral decision" of the exclusive client of MA Tools which belong to the group, but which, according to the union press release, violates an agreement running until 2026. One of the lines has already been withdrawn last June 11, "with bailiffs and security guards," said an employee. "Provocative or even insulting" methods.
The object of this hearing?
"To establish a clear violation of the obligation of the company to consult the CSE", affirms the lawyer of the CSE of MA France, Mounir Bourhaba, who seized "urgently" the judge of summary proceedings, "so that all ranges do not come out before consultation with employees ”, left in a“ total vagueness ”concerning this withdrawal and the underlying project.
“We do not weigh heavily, fears André Messi, 49, CFDT delegate.
But we have to make our voice heard.
We won't let this go.
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Neither dismissal nor social plan according to management
57 jobs - out of about 500 full-time equivalents including nearly 300 CDI - those working on the production lines withdrawn, would be threatened, according to the unions. But it is for the future of the whole plant that the employees fear. The unions are afraid that beyond the declarations of the management "in the face of the first turmoil", "no written or concrete guarantee" will be given by the management as to the safeguarding of jobs.
“It's a robbery, loose Adel Zorgui. If other lines are deleted, we cannot prevent a PSE from arriving. "The fear of a long-term snowball effect fuels" unease "and" lack of confidence "among employees, denounces a member of the CSE. "We started this box, it is thanks to us that it is where it is today," says Ali, 65, an employee of the factory since 2003. And now they want to take the bread out of our hands. "
These fears are "unfounded", responds the HRD of MA France Leïla Mechai contacted by Le Parisien, for all the workforce as for the 57 jobs directly at stake according to the unions. “Stellantis has the right to take over the ranges under certain legal conditions, currently respected, and which do not entail any dismissal and no social plan. The judgment on the consultation of the CSE will be rendered on August 20.