In 1992, the Forges employees agreed to a 10% pay cut and abandoned their 13e month in the form of a loan to their business. The latter’s bankruptcy deprived them of reimbursement. Compensation on land located in Vilvoorde must provide the curatorship with enough to reimburse them. But the Belgian State, also a creditor of the Forges, wants to be compensated as a priority. Former workers demonstrated this Sunday.
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Journalist at the Economy department
By Pascal LorentPublished on 06/2/2024 at 5:44 p.m.
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Drole of procession and funny destination, this Sunday afternoon, departing (by train) from Schaerbeek station. At the call of the “Cels de Clabecq” collective, around a hundred demonstrators, supported by other associations, joined the Slachthuisstraat parking lot in Vilvoorde. There is a site, the subject of much covetousness and a final hope of being reimbursed for the former workers of the Forges de Clabecq, a name which goes back almost thirty years.
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