A major expansion project has just been launched, because the management plans to replace the current manufacturing of 75 and 81 meter blades with that of 115 meter blades, which means major work which will be spread over several months in 2025.
To do this, Siemens will undoubtedly still benefit from public aid of all kinds but clearly that was not enough, since a whole series of measures were recently announced to workers aimed at making them pay the bill for the expansion. This is how 500 temporary workers are released from the factory for an indefinite period. As for the hired workers, it was planned to put them on partial unemployment and therefore to make them suffer a big loss of salary, but also to impose on them “modulation” periods, not worked but necessarily recoverable until the end of 2026, and this for a volume of 250 to 350 hours, the equivalent of seven to ten weeks!
On Wednesday, December 11, a large part of the workers began a minimum two-hour strike per day: no question of paying the price for future work! Thursday the 12th, the strikers persevered and finally, faced with this anger, the management ended up giving in by reducing the volume of hours to be recovered to a maximum of 65 hours and it will maintain almost the entire salary during periods of partial unemployment.
This decline, even partial, is an encouragement to continue to be respected.
