He has been fighting for thirty-four years to defend the rights of employees and watch over the fate of those made redundant. Without realizing that he would also find himself in this situation. At the head since 2016 of the CFE-CGC, the executives' union, François Hommeril has just been fired by his employer and therefore finds himself unemployed at the age of 63, reports the newspaper The World.
A shock of “unbelievable violence”, confides this trained engineer. Located in La Bathie (Savoie), the Niche Fused Alumina factory, formerly Alcan then Rio Tinto, had been in receivership since April. On October 25, the Chambéry commercial court validated the takeover of the site by the French group Alteo.
At the head of the CFE-CGC until June 2026
Of the 173 employees, 119 jobs will be retained and 54 positions will therefore be eliminated. Including that of François Hommeril who found himself in “the cart” even though he had hardly worked at the factory since his appointment as head of CFE-CGC. He still retained his delegate mandate and regularly returned to attend the annual salary negotiations.
“I am very linked to her, to her destiny,” he confides to our colleagues, referring to the “very brutal” aspect of the dismissal. “Given my involvement in recent months, the president of Alteo could have sent a little message, it’s happening,” he regrets, a little bitterly. A graduate from Niche Fused Alumina, François Hommeril will not be idle either since he will remain president of the CFE-CGC union until June 2026.
