“Thousands of jobs”
“There will probably be announcements of site closures in the coming weeks and months,” Marc Ferracci told France Inter on Saturday.
The social balance sheet “will be counted in thousands of jobs”, according to the minister, who recommends a European response, in particular to support the automobile sector.
He spent three hours Friday in Cholet (Maine-et-Loire) on the site of one of the two Michelin factories promised to close, greeted by ten minutes of boos.
“The employees were warned very late”
“The employees are upset, angry, we can understand it because the way the announcement was made […] was not a dignified manner”, estimated Marc Ferracci during the program “We don't stop the Eco”: “The employees were warned very late, the management of Michelin did not come to their make the announcement live, eye to eye […] it's regrettable. »
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The French tire giant announced on November 5 the closure before 2026 of the Cholet and Vannes (Morbihan) sites, which have a total of 1,254 employees.
“We are at the beginning of a violent industrial bloodletting,” warned the general secretary of the CGT Sophie Binet, in an interview with La Tribune Dimanche.
This “bleeding” will hit “all sectors”, and is “due each time to the same strategy of these companies”. Namely “always increase margins”, on the one hand, and “always distribute more profits to shareholders”, on the other hand, judged the head of the union center.
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