Some companies will not wait until May 11 and the end of the coronavirus containment to resume their activity. This is the case of Michelin which, between Monday and Tuesday, had several hundred employees taken over. Some will make masks, but others will make tires, which for unions and employees does not appear to be a priority. The automobile market is indeed at a standstill and should take time to restart ...
In view of the fall in road traffic, the urgency of changing tires is not obvious ... However, the management of Michelin has decided to restart its factories: 1,500 people returned to work at the start of the month , and several hundred have been doing it since Monday, on three sites: Troyes in the Aube, Puy-en-Velay in Haute-Loire, and Clermont-Ferrand in Puy-de-Dôme, the historic site.
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"Absolutely not basic necessities"
"To make tires, no, it is not possible, what! They are very high-end tires, for sports cars: Porsche, Bugatti, Ferrari, high-end Mercedes ... They are absolutely not basic necessities ", denounces on Europe 1 the CGT representative of the Clermont-Ferrand site, Jean-Paul Cognet, who opposed the takeover for 150 employees. "It is endangering the health of employees, the services of hospitals in the Clermont-Ferrand region. Michelin wants to give the image of a high-performance industrialist and at the forefront of economic recovery", he indignant.
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And the employees did not have much choice, because they too are afraid of the post confinement: they preferred to return to work, to restart the factories for fear of losing their jobs if the activity was not there you at the time of resumption.