Aveyron: ex-salaried SAM refuse to leave factory

Summons to evacuate, Tuesday, April 5, the metallurgy plant that they have been holding for 133 days, former employees refuse to cooperate to prevent the sale of machines that would, in their view, cover a recovery project.

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“I did not do any job search, because I do not want to go elsewhere,” warned, decided, Fabienne, who worked thirty-three years at Aveyronne Metallurgy (SAM), a car foundry Entry into service in 1973 in Viviez, in the heart of the Decazeville Coffran (Aveyron).

At the end of twenty-three months of a twenty-three months of the judicial recovery in December 2019 to the liquidation pronounced in November 2021, leaving 330 people without employment, this former employee still believes and acts as if nothing n. ‘was. “Every day, I go to work. I go to the factory,” says this woman close to sixty, very attached to Sam. “It was here that I met my husband Bernard. Here we have lived together, the marriages and births of colleagues.”

Even if the machines have stopped working for four months, older employees have never dropped out. For 133 days, they have continuously watch, night and day, on industrial tools. The stake is clear: in order to find a buyer, the SAM must not be stripped of his equipment to be able to restart quickly. But, in its decision on Tuesday, March 29, the Judicial Court of Rodez ordered the evacuation of the premises. However, the jurisdiction has granted them a grace period, which will end on Tuesday, April 5, at 14 hours.

Two guarantees

“The agents have a mission supervised by law: to check the safety of the site and proceed with the sale of the assets. To achieve this, the places must be videred,” justifies Jerome Carles, The lawyer of the liquidators who assigned, on February 28, the exports for “illicit occupation” and “imminent danger of maintaining on the ovens site containing molten aluminum”. “Gold, the occupation forbade us to ensure the site”, argues the Council. “And the gas and electricity bill to operate the ovens is nearly one million euros over the last three months.”

The employees, they decided not to obey. At the last General Assembly, Tuesday, March 29, they voted in favor of the continuation of the occupation of the places, the time to obtain two guarantees: a document signed by the agents who undertake not to sell or cut The industrial tool and the establishment of a security service at the entrance of the factory. “Collectively, we say that we must not touch the Sam. Our fight makes sense, it is just and legitimate. Renault and the others will not make us go for guilty victims,” ​​aggregates, angry , David Gistau, CGT member of the Social and Economic Committee (CSE). “Guilty of what? To keep our dignity to have a full fridge? To allow our children to study? To allow the emergence of an industrial project?”

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