REPORTAGE
The hope of 104 employees was showered this Friday: the famous charentaises will no longer be manufactured in their original department. The latest traditional factory in Charente will close after the commercial court rejected the only takeover offer of the factory, Friday.
The wait was endless on the spot, before the employees finally got to know the decision. In the image of Florence, who describes "a blow of club on the head" and expresses his "anger with this mess". She is worried about her future and that of her colleagues. "We're all going to Pôle emploi, where there were couples working together and losing their jobs," she says.
Unemployed at 50
The takeover bid was to retain 38 jobs out of the 104 that the company had, an offer rejected by the court Friday, removing the last hope that could cling to employees. Like her colleague, Lolita denounces a mess, she who has "pretty much passed all the positions of the company for 23 years". "We all had a know-how," she argues. Her concern now comes from the fact that "in Charente, apart from the Charente woman, there is not much more to do for people like us". The average age of employees would be 50 years. "It's not easy to find a job at this age," says the former employee.
Less than a year ago, the company had obtained a geographical indication, a label that guaranteed its know-how.