According to the general secretary of the trade union organization Sophie Binet, these 180 layoff plans concern “around 100,000 employees” in terms of direct and indirect employment.
The general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet, denounced on Friday an “extremely worrying industrial situation” with “180 layoff plans” in progress, the result according to the trade unionist of the “total failure of the supply policy” carried out by the head of state.
“The 180 layoff plans that we have identified concern in terms of direct and indirect employment around 100,000 employees” particularly affecting the automobile sector, estimated the leader of the second union center, during a press conference.
Also affected is “the chemical sector, which is violently threatened,” she adds, citing, among others, the cases of Exxon and Sanofi.
Industry meetings and industry savings booklet
The CGT also says it is “very worried” about the future of Michelin, “the glass and ceramics sector” with “50% of the production capacity which is at a standstill today”, or even the “10,000 employees of the Milee advertising distributor, placed in compulsory liquidation in September, (who) have not had any salary since July, with personal consequences”.
All “these layoff plans” are the result of Emmanuel Macron’s “total failure of supply policy.” “But the result is that our trade deficit has never been so large. Our industry is at its lowest.”
“This is only the beginning, if we do nothing, of a new industrial bloodletting which is very dangerous,” Sophie Binet still worries. “We are at the bone” and “if we let this industrial bleeding take place, clearly, our industry will not recover,” she warns.
The CGT, which met this week with Antoine Armand and Marc Ferracci, Ministers of Economy and Industry, is once again asking the government for “a moratorium on layoffs” to allow the social partners to “work with the public authorities on site takeovers and the resumption of industrial activity”.
It also requires “an in-depth political reorientation of industrial policy”, the holding of “industry conferences” and “the establishment of an industry savings account to be able to finance our industry in the long term”.
These economic difficulties arise as Parliament begins to study the 2025 draft budget comprising a drastic reduction in spending and a return to tax increases, in order to consolidate public finances.
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