Nicolas Voiret returned this Sunday, November 24, 2024. We feel the anger in the back of his throat and a deep sadness. The employee of the Michelin Vannes site elected as CGT substitute is determined to “fight, more than ever”, so that this company, which has employed him “since December 17, 2001” does not close, contrary to what was announced on November 5 2024, by the leader in tire manufacturing. So, when he learned that Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the French Communist Party was going to the L’Humanité-Bretagne festival, which was being held on November 23 and 24, 2024, at the Lanester exhibition center, he did not hesitated for a second. He came straight away. “I first wanted to thank him for daring to speak out on this subject,” he says. The rumor of the closure of the Cholet (Maine-et-Loire) and Vannes (Morbihan) sites ran through the corridors of Michelin. But the question was taboo. He burst the abscess during a political broadcast on Sunday, November 3. »
A bill tabled this week in the National Assembly
“It was an open secret,” reacts Fabien Roussel. Coming to participate in this L’Huma festival which he describes as “a moment of meeting, of political debate, of celebration”, the elected official took the time to sit down, at the beginning of the afternoon, before his meeting, with CGT representatives from Michelin, in Vannes and from the Fonderie de Bretagne, in Caudan. The latter called a strike this Tuesday, November 26, while negotiations continue for the takeover of the company.
You lead your union fight, we will lead our political fight
“I will not be able to travel on Tuesday,” regrets Fabien Roussel who had already visited the foundry employees in 2021. So I wanted to speak today.” History of showing its support and saying, above all, “that we can prevent layoffs in these groups which make profits”. His weapon: a law prohibiting what he calls “stock market layoffs”. “When a group is doing well, and believe me, Michelin is doing well, it should not have the right to cut jobs,” he insisted, announcing to the union representatives, surrounded by around twenty visitors, that this bill will be tabled in the National Assembly, this week of November 25, 2024, by Yannick Monnet, communist deputy for the first constituency of Allier. “We are going to ask that it be discussed quickly, but it will depend on the willingness of the government to include, or not, this text of law on the agenda,” he clarified, not hesitating to show great doubt. “We must stop this hemorrhage of industrial jobs immediately. Have this hope. You lead your union fight, we will lead our political fight. » To his left, Maël Le Goff, CGT union delegate from Fonderie de Bretagne, nods. Determined, like Nicolas Voiret, to continue the fight.
