- The Michelin factory in La Roche-sur-Yon, in Vendée, is due to close by the end of the year.
- Management will offer everyone "one or more positions at a Michelin site in France".
Closure is being prepared. The terms and conditions of departure for the 619 employees of the Michelin factory in La Roche-sur-Yon (Vendée), which is due to close by the end of the year, were validated on Thursday by representative union organizations, announced the management of the tire group.
At the group's headquarters in Clermont-Ferrand, "the representative trade union organizations CFDT, CFE-CGC, SUD as well as FO (non-representative union organization) signed the agreement on social support measures in the context of the site closure La Roche-sur-Yon, "Michelin said in a statement. The CGT has not signed it.
"Secure mobility"
Employees will be able to pursue "a professional career internally or externally as part of secure mobility", adds the press release. Management wishes "as a priority" that La Roche-sur-Yon employees be able to pursue their careers within the group and will offer everyone "one or more positions at a Michelin site in France". As a result, 100 jobs will be available as a priority for La Roche-sur-Yon employees at the Cholet site, located around 70 km away.
The closure of the Vendée factory was announced on October 10, a decision contested by the unions of a company deemed very profitable. "No financial amount, nor measures negotiated within the framework of this PES can challenge our anger at this decision to close a factory where employees are victims of the race without limit to profitability!" ", Said the intersyndicale (Sud-CGC-CFDT-FO) in a press release published in mid-January. "Even if this damage is priceless, we managed to get almost 40% more than the social plans previously negotiated," however welcomed the inter-union.
Bamberg plant to close
Affected by the difficulties of the market and competition from low-cost Asian tires, the brand in the Bibendum also announced the closure by 2021 of its Bamberg plant in Germany, which employs 858 people. The Bibendum brand employs more than 125,000 people and operates 67 tire factories which together produced around 190 million tires in 2018, according to Michelin.
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