The automotive supplier Valeo plans to cut 868 positions in France, the group's management said on Wednesday. In Isère, 238 positions risk being eliminated in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier. A hard blow for employees. The unions are trying to tone down the score.
The crisis in the automobile industry is confirmed and amplified with a new social plan, this time at Valéo. Management announced yesterday 868 job cuts on 8 sites in France and in particular in Isère, in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, where 238 jobs should be eliminated. “We expected a social plan, but not of this magnitude“, confides on France Bleu Isère Pierre-Ange Carmona, head of the Autonomous Confederation of Labor in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier.
If this elimination is confirmed, it represented a drastic reduction in the workforce: 70 people would remain employed at Valéo in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, compared to 308 so far. So of course the site should remain open, unlike others like in Sarthe, but “this restructuring raises questions about the future of the site and the sustainability of the remaining activities“, believes the trade unionist.
Future mobilizations
Among the positions eliminated, the majority concern research and development activities (117 positions out of the 238 reductions). The unions hope to further reduce the number of job cuts. “The employees are angry, we went to see them at 6 a.m. this morning, they don't know how they are going to leave, under what conditions“, says Pierre-Ange Carmona who assures that”there will be mobilizations“. “The social plan opens from December 11, there will be a calendar between now and then, with preparation meetings“.
The Valéo site in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier originally produced starters but was gradually converted to hybridization systems (an electric motor with its electronic system).
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