The meeting on Monday morning, with nine elders of Whirlpool, of which four ex-unionists, was unveiled on Twitter by François Ruffin, the member France unsuitable (LFI) of the sum.
Le Monde with AFP
It was one of the highlights of the Campaign of the Inter-Tours of the Presidential in 2017, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen went to Amiens on the same day to meet the employees of Whirlpool their promising to save their jobs. More than four years later, employees have been closed by June 2018, and two buyers, who failed each time to revive the activity.
On the move to Amiens, the President of the Republic returned to the episodes of the resumption of the Whirlpool plant, including the closure of the site, by meeting nine old employees, Monday, November 22, in a café of the city center .
“It shows that unfortunately good will is not enough. We have sometimes taken for fools. We sometimes made collectively,” he recognized, in allusion to the succession of bankruptcies Resumers from this industrial site, where he has moved several times since 2017 by ensuring each time the site could start. After closing its doors in 2018 as a result of the relocation of its dryer production in Poland, the company WN had resumed 162 employees of the factory (out of 278) before being placed in judicial liquidation in July 2019 fault commercial opportunities. A second buyer, Ageco, then had the same fate.
“It is the economic and industrial life, we had adventures that disappointed everyone. In the recovery there are failures,” he justified before the press. But he recognized that the first buyer, WN, that he had welcomed to the Savior in 2017, “behaved like a premium hunter” and “will be judged”.
“We has so much lied “
“The last year was so difficult, we were so lied, told the head of state, a former employee, converted into real estate. I have trouble talking about it, it was terrible . “” For four years, we have not let go of them “, has reborn an ex-unionist. “Every time we believe, we are investing and it stops,” says another.
“I understand very well. I made myself with you. It’s not your failure to you. It’s their failure. You are victims of errors that took place and that you had to undergo” , answered the president, promising to continue to help with individual solutions.
This meeting on Monday morning, with nine ancient whirlpool, of which four ex-unionists, was unveiled on Twitter by François Ruffin, the member France unsuitable (LFI) of the Somme. “It was necessary to insist very strongly” for this meeting, said the member on France blue Picardie . “There is a huge weariness when we undergo three layoff plans, that there are three times buyers and that you are told three times:” This is the good “and that you are licensed again: you end up In crumbs after an experience like this, “said Ruffin.
“On the 278 initial employees, only 43 people to whom we have to find a solution,” said the Group’s Human Resources Department. One hundred and ninety-one benefited from employment or training (124 CDI, 41 CDD, 20 business creations, 6 people in training) and 41 are retired or retired.
In 2019, Mr. Macron had already met AMIENS’s former Whirlpool employees trying to defend his balance sheet a few months after WN’s judicial liquidation. “Me, I told the truth to Whirlpool. (…) Do I say: we’ll save you all, we’ll keep the business? No. I said, Those who tell you that you lying “, then had declared the head of state.