The wait continues for Bibendum employees. Michelin will respond by Saturday (November 9) to union fears that the tire maker’s three French sites will close due to low-cost Chinese competition and high energy prices in Europe, a source told Reuters. -spokesperson for the Clermontois group.
The trade union organizations have launched a right of economic alert on the site of Cholet (Maine-et-Loire), specialized in small van tires and which employs a permanent workforce of around 1,000 people, of Vannes (Morbihan) – around 300 employees on permanent contracts – and Joué-lès-Tours (Indre-et-Loire) – around 150 employees – or in total around 1,400 jobs. Vannes and Joué-lès-Tours both manufacture components for tires. This last site has already undergone a major restructuring in 2013 with the elimination of 700 jobs and the end of the heavy goods vehicle tire activity.
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Two factories closed in Germany last year
Sunday on France 3, the national secretary of the Communist Party Fabien Roussel declared that Michelin would announce in the coming days the closure of the Cholet and Vannes sites. The group refused to comment on these comments, simply indicating that it will respond to the union organizations on the right of economic alert by November 9 at the latest, said the Michelin spokesperson. “The company has been mobilized for months on these sites which are experiencing structural difficulties,” he added.
Questioned on this subject Monday, November 4 on C-News, the Minister of the Economy Antoine Armand refused to make a comment, indicating that he would let the company express itself first with its employees. “My ministry is following all industrial issues,” he continued, before adding that “the medium-term solution is the competitiveness of the country.”
The group, which had already announced a year earlier the closure of two German truck tire sites due in particular to Asian competition, last month lowered its annual result forecast to take into account a more marked slowdown than expected. of the automobile market in the third quarter.
With Reuters (Reporting Gilles Guillaume, with Sudip Kar-Gupta, edited by Blandine Hénault)
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