after those of the Condats, new layoffs in Dordogne

More than a year after the signing of the job protection plan at Papeteries de Condat, the shock wave has not yet finished spreading among suppliers and subcontractors. Among the first affected, there was the Société Vézérien de Transformation (SVT), in Lardin-Saint-Lazare, which announced its closure in February 2024, after a year of partial unemployment for its 14 employees. At the end of 2024, it is its neighbor, the Société Vézérien de Logistique (SVL), which must carry out dozens of layoffs to only have around ten employees (1).

“In total, that's 80 people, 80 families more on the floor,” thunders Condat CGT Philippe Delord, bitter to note that “local elected officials have nevertheless done everything to bring customers back to SVL”.

Still in Dordogne, but 100 km from Lardin, we remember that Omya also had to sacrifice the majority of the thirty or so jobs at its Sainte-Croix-de-Mareuil site. The quarry had one and only customer: Lecta, who bought liquid chalk from it to whiten its paper.

“Huge waste”

“A huge waste. » The formula recurs in the comments of both Condat staff representatives and Senator Marie-Claude Varaillas, regarding the shutdown of Condat line 4 and its effects on employment, well beyond the 174 positions eliminated.

The elected communist also submitted a question to the Minister for Industry in the fall, to find out “the consequences of the Industrial Rebound system, put in place to support the territory in its industrial transformation”: “The State had to invest 2 million euros and the Condat shareholder 1.5 million euros to regain prospects. » She didn't get a response. “I'm waiting to have a minister,” she said while waiting for Marc Ferracci's successor to be known (Marc Ferracci remains Minister for Industry in the Bayrou government and adds energy to his portfolio).

(1) Despite our numerous requests, neither the management nor the staff representatives of SVL wished to comment on these job cuts.