Licensed after the liquidation of the Aveyron metallurgy company, employees intend to continue in January the occupation that has lasted for thirty-seven days.
Le Monde with AFP
The employees of Aveyronne metallurgy (SAM) spent Christmas at the factory. Licensed after the liquidation of this subcontractor of Renault in the Aveyron, they intend to continue in January the occupation that has lasted for thirty-seven days, warned Wednesday 29 December the staff delegates.
They claim a “repair of the injury suffered” by the more than 300 employees of the company, putting forward that in this affected region in employment a professional reclassification will be difficult.
“It is not because the holidays have passed that the mobilization has dropped, on the contrary,” Sébastien Lallier insists, one of the staff representatives.
“It’s been thirty-seven days that the factory is occupied and the employees voted unanimously to continue to occupy it throughout the month of January” or even beyond “if necessary”, Specified by its Ghislaine Gistau side, CGT delegate of Sam. “We celebrated Christmas on the spot and we will celebrate the Eve first year on the spot too,” she said.
Philippe Martinez on the spot
On the next Monday, the employees will decide in general assembly of other actions to be carried out in order to “show at the beginning of the school year that we must not bury us,” said Sébastien Lallier. Some 230 people, according to Mr. Lallier, participate actively “night and day” at the occupation of the company whose number of employees is a little less than 350.
The Secretary General of the CGT, Philippe Martinez, who must meet the Minister of the Economy, Bruno the Mayor, next week, came to express his support for these employees at a press point on Wednesday afternoon Liviez (Aveyron), Sam’s seat, said M me gistau.
Rate in 2017 by the Chinese group Jinjiang, the SAM, installed on the heights of Decazeville, had been placed in judicial recovery in December 2019, in judicial liquidation with extension of activity on 16 September, before the Court of Commerce does not pronounce the cessation of activity on November 26th.
Bercy appointed on 13 December a Chargé de mission to accompany SAM employees, believing that Renault had to commit to “a financial support of each employee”. “Renault’s responsibility is clearly engaged”, while “the state is on a coming exercise. Nothing has moved,” said M me GISTAU.