The regional management of Crédit Agricole announced on Tuesday November 19, 2024 its plan to close its headquarters in the Meuse. Employees and elected officials express their anger at a decision they believe is unjustified.
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The regional management of Crédit Agricole announced on Tuesday November 19, 2024 its plan to close its administrative site in Bar-le-Duc, in the Meuse. Seventy-six employees are affected.
Geoffrey Vizot, SUD CAM delegate, CSE secretary, contacted by telephone, confirms the information. The staff representatives were informed in a small committee of the decision around ten days ago: “the general director explained to us that he was unable to find an arrangement with the Chamber of Agriculture, co-owner of the building, with SAFER and the Chamber of Trades to renovate it. He informed us of a different financial which forced us to abandon our site in the Meuse”.
The regional management of Crédit Agricole announced on Tuesday November 19, 2024 its plan to close its administrative site in Bar-le-Duc, in the Meuse. Seventy-six employees are affected.
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Still according to Geoffrey Vizot, a few days later, another version of the problem was put forward by management to elected officials: “the general director told us that there was no longer any dispute with the Chamber of Agriculture which accepted our conditions. But as the reflection has already been initiated at the level of the board of directors, we estimate that it There is no longer any future in the Meuse for the next twenty or thirty years, so we are going to close Bar-le-Duc.”
The management's desire would be to relocate the Meuse headquarters to Laxou, near Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle).
Crédit Agricole, a bank that makes money, was expected to support rural areas and not bury them.
Bertrand Pancher, deputy for Meuse
Since the announcement, elected officials have stepped up to the plate. Bertrand Pancher, MP for Meuse, picked up his phone to tell the regional president of the bank how bad he thought of this abrupt decision. He also expressed his anger via his Facebook account:
The president of the departmental council, Jérôme Dumont also expresses his indignation:“a bank which achieves historic net results cannot decently abandon the Meuse and rural areas: more than €69 million and €68 million respectively over the last two years.”
The senator from Meuse, Franck Menonville was quick to react just as violently: “this announcement comes in the midst of an agricultural crisis and contravenes the values of mutualism, guided by major principles, such as proximity, respect for territories and the imperative of shared governance.” and to remind: “during the merger in 1993, Crédit agricole de Lorraine confirmed the maintenance of the headquarters in Laxou, Metz and Bar-le-Duc.”
The regional management of Crédit Agricole assured the union delegates that a solution would be found for each of the seventy-six employees. When contacted, she did not wish to speak before the extraordinary CSE which will be convened on Friday December 13.
If it materializes, this announcement would be a new blow for the Meuse department which also suffered, on November 8, 2024, the liquidation of the Stenpa stationery factory in Stenay with the loss of 124 jobs.
