All employees working in production are, since Monday, part time unemployed. The plant of the Canadian railway manufacturer Bombardier de Crespin, in the North, is at a standstill until further notice, we have learned from concordant sources after an extraordinary CSE.
“There is no more production. The factory is at a standstill, ”assured AFP Karim Khatabi, delegate of the southern union, which had requested the holding of this meeting in the context of the epidemic linked to the coronavirus. “It is a wise decision by management. I am pleasantly surprised. "
Partial unemployment
According to him and another elected South who wishes to remain anonymous, about 800 employees, workers and technicians in production, out of the 1,500 employees in total, will be partially unemployed, the others in teleworking as far as possible. They did not know for the moment what was going to happen for the temporary workers and the subcontractors.
"From today, the doors of the factory are closed for an unlimited period, maybe two months," confirmed to AFP Eric Taboga, CGT delegate, present at the CSE Monday morning alongside the doctor of work, site management and Bombardier France.
"Production comes after the health of employees," he added, saying that short-time workers in production should receive 82% of their salary. The factory was in particular building NER RERs. Asked, the management did not wish to speak immediately.
Lille
The future RER will be partly manufactured at Bombardier Crespin
Economy
How Valérie Pécresse is putting pressure on Alstom and Bombardier to get their RERs on schedule
- Coronavirus
- Covid 19
- Economy
- Unemployment
- Factory