“I call the French metallurgy set to go up to Paris on May 13,” said CGT secretary general of the Dunkerquoise company

Hundreds of people, including worried ArcelorMittal employees, paraded Thursday in Dunkirk to denounce the abolitions by ArcelorMittal of around 600 positions in France, especially on the Dunkerquois website.

The secretary general of the CGT of ArcelorMittal de Dunkirk (North), Gaëtan Lecocq, called Thursday May 1 on Franceinfo “The whole of French steel industry and metallurgy” has “Go up in Paris” May 13 to protest against the abolition by ArcelorMittal of around 600 jobs in France, especially on the Dunkerquois site which is the most affected.

“We are forced to get into tone. I call the whole of the French steel industry and metallurgy, May 13, to go up in Paris. If it is necessary to mobilize two, five, ten, fifteen, twenty buses, families, retirees, we will do it, we will go to Paris and we will show what we know how to do”declares Gaëtan Lecocq on Franceinfo.

“We have not returned to a battle, we got into a war. We know that it will last for months and months.”

Gaëtan Lecocq, secretary general of the CGT of ArcelorMittal de Dunkirk

in franceinfo

“I guarantee it to you, we’re going to get out of it. We’re going to get there, we will have to show the muscles”car “If ArcelorMittal Dunkirk falls, the whole economy of Hauts-de-France will fall”according to Gaëtan Lecocq, believing between “20,000 and 30,000 jobs that will disappear”.

Hundreds of people, including worried ArcelorMittal employees, marched Thursday in Dunkirk to denounce these positions of posts. To the sound of drums and in a cloud of red flags of the CGT, the demonstrators, some of whom in site helmet and red chasubles, chanted their anger in this port city.