The strike against the sale of Doliprane production sites in France is suspended in Lisieux (Calvados), the unions announced on Friday October 25, 2024. However, walkouts will take place from Monday October 28.
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New chapter in the file for the sale of Doliprane production sites. “The picket line is suspended” in Lisieux (Calvados), declared Frédéric Debève, CGT union delegate from Opella (a subsidiary of Sanofi producing the famous painkiller), following a vote in a general assembly bringing together employees at the call of the CGT unions, FO and CFDT.
Walkouts are nevertheless planned.next week and the weeks to come“in Lisieux, where 250 jobs are located,”until withdrawal from sale“, he warned.
It will be about “punch days” pour “mark the spirits“, said Johann Nicolas, CGT Opella union representative for the same site.
The pharmaceutical group Sanofi formalized on Monday the sale of 50% of its subsidiary Opella, which produces Doliprane – France’s best-selling drug – to the American investment fund CD&R.
An agreement between the State, Sanofi and CD&R nevertheless plans to impose numerous conditions to guarantee the production of Doliprane in France, the supply of the French market and the preservation of jobs on national sites.
This transfer project arouses strong emotion in France among public opinion and the political class. Doliprane is used by many French people to relieve pain and fever.
For the unions, this agreement consists of“verbal commitments“, denounced Frédéric Debève. “We have nothing written, nothing formal. For us there is nothing.”
“There are no real answers” regarding the concerns of employees, added Johann Nicolas.
On November 6, negotiations should open between the unions and Opella management, according to these two unionists.
Completion of the transaction is expected no earlier than the second quarter of 2025.
(With AFP)
