Squads of anger. Fourteen unions of the airline Air France published this Monday a joint letter in which they ask to be received by the government to preserve jobs "in the short and long term".
This open letter addressed to the Minister of the Economy and the Secretary of State for Transport is signed by FO, the company's first union, but also by Unsa Aérien, CFDT, CFE-CGC, CFTC, CGT , Sud-Aérien, by the hostess and flight attendant unions (SNGAF, UNPNC, SNPNC, Unac and Unsa-PNC) and by the pilot unions Spaf and Alter. The SNPL, the majority pilots union at Air France, is not a signatory.
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"We (…) want to share our concerns with you about the consequences of the health crisis that our country has just gone through" and "share with you the solutions that seem to us the most relevant for preserving our industrial tool and its short and long term ”, write these trade union organizations. Faced with an air transport sector brought to a halt by the Covid-19 epidemic, the State granted Air France financial support of 7 billion euros, including 4 billion bank loans guaranteed 90% by the State and 3 billion direct loans.
In return, the government asked the group to improve its profitability and its environmental impact, and to start thinking about its network in France. The management of Air France will unveil on July 3 the strategic directions of the company and its consequences on employment during an extraordinary Central Social and Economic Committee. The unions expect the loss of several thousand jobs within the tricolor company and its regional subsidiary Hop!
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"Regarding the shareholder loan that you have granted us, it seems to us to be decisive that this can be at the service of the stability of our financial structure and not to its detriment by far too restrictive counterparts", underline the unions, judging "Just as decisive that it cannot be invoked in support of a massive destruction of jobs".
"At regular intervals, since the financial crisis of 2008, the social body has been manhandled", the Air France group having eliminated "about 15,000 jobs in this interval", they recall, deploring that "the activity of the sector aviation, and its jobs, have been cannibalized by companies using fiscal and social dumping when they do not directly benefit from subsidies ”.
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