Concern in Yvelines, 2,500 jobs will be cut in this global company

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The bad news fell this Wednesday, October 16, 2024 during the group’s European committee organized in Munich (Germany). Airbus has announced its intention to cut up to 2,500 positions “by mid-2026” in its space and defense division, or 7% of its workforce.

Airbus Defense and Space currently employs 35,000 people worldwide, including 7,000 in France on its two large sites in Toulouse and Élancourt (Yvelines), where 2,000 employees.

“An increasingly difficult space market”

The aeronautics group justifies this decision by a need to adapt “to an increasingly difficult space market”. “In recent years, the defense and space sector and, consequently, our division have been affected by a very changing and very challenging business environment, characterized by disrupted supply chains and increasing cost pressure due to budgetary constraints,” explains Mike Schoellhorn, CEO of Airbus Defense and Space, in a press release.

“Protect jobs”

Among the unionsthe CFE-CGC admits “difficulties that cannot be denied”, according to Dominique Izambert, its deputy central union representative, employed on the Élancourt site.

“The space market is completely turned upside down with Space X. We have to adapt to all that. »

Again “at start of the social process », the CFE-CGC now intends to “fight for protect jobs and sites”.

For its part, the group assures that it “will work with its social partners to limiter l’impact relying on all available social measures.

Airbus must leave Élancourt in 2027

Airbus must leave its Élancourt site by 2027to reach new premises in the Pas-du-Lac area, in Montigny-le-Bretonneux.

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