The recent announcement of the potential abolition of hundreds of posts violently shakes up the sector of integration companies In France.
Faced with this alarming situation, workers contemplate with anxious the brutal end of their professional careers, victims of a market logic favoring the price to the detriment of human values. Revolted by this situation, the Federation of integration companies launches a call to mobilisation general, while the whole ecosystem of theSocial and solidarity economy Flicker in this hard blow. The concern is intensifying every day.
Major insertion sites impacted by the loss of a tender
The recent announcement of the Envie network concerning the potential loss of five of its logistics sites following the call for tenders launched by Ecosystem lifts a wave of concern. Nearly 1,000 direct and indirect jobs are now found in a precarious situation.
Business Retrilog (Emmaüs Action Ouest) also sees its antennas in Morlaix and Saint-Brieuc threatened, with around thirtythreatened jobs. These figures do not represent simple data, but real persons whose professional future suddenly vacillates in the sector of Deee logistics.
“We are witnessing marginalization of companies that integrate social and environmental values, however crucial for the future,” underlines Nadia Landry, president of the federation of integration companies.
Nadia Landry
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Preferred economic criteria to the detriment of social and environmental issues
The price as a determining factor when assessing offers for this call for tenders raises questions on the application of legal obligations imposed on eco-organisms. The latter must normally promote structures promoting re -use, reuse and repair.
In this particular situation, the actors of thecircular economy seem to have been dismissed, thus creating a risk not only for environmental values but also for the social balance that these structures maintain thanks to the insertion support.
The reactions and demands of the Federation of Integration Companies
Faced with this alarming situation, the president of the Federation of integration companiesNadia Landry, manifests her solidarity with the structures concerned and calls for reviewing the methods of evaluating eco-organisms. His intervention highlights the urgency of respecting obligations sociales and environmental.
The FEI asks the government to intervene quickly to safeguard this fundamental sector for social inclusion by economic activity, requiring a government action concrete.
Uncertainties for employees and the future of the integration sector
The employees of the affected sites are going through a period of anxiety that upsets their daily lives and darkened their future perspectives. The principles of reuse and combat against theexclusion could be undermined without quick solutions.
This sector crisis comes in parallel with the difficulties experienced by the French textile industry, illustrating the multiple challenges to which fight against exclusion Faches in the current economic landscape.
