Toulouse, the birthplace and headquarters of Airbus, is not surprisingly the city that will be most affected by the vast social plan announced by the aircraft manufacturer. Of the 5,000 jobs lost within a year in France, 3,500 will be in the Pink City, said Thursday Jean-François Knepper, FO union leader (majority), after a new meeting between social partners and direction.
The breakdown of the damage in Toulouse provides for the disappearance of 2,398 blue-collar workers who operate on assembly lines, that of 980 white-collar workers at headquarters and that of 200 more employees in the various subsidiaries. The Toulouse region is home to an assembly line for each of the manufacturer's wide-body aircraft (A330, A350 and A380) and two for aircraft of the A320 family.
In Nantes and Saint-Nazaire too
The cuts in the production workforce also concern the Nantes and Saint-Nazaire sites with 484 and 386 positions concerned respectively.
Finally, the Stelia subsidiary of Airbus (aerostructures and aircraft seats) is also expected to lose several hundred positions.
Hit hard by the health crisis that has permanently paralyzed air traffic, Airbus announced Tuesday an "adaptation plan" of 15,000 job cuts worldwide, or 11% of its workforce.
The group, which wants to favor voluntary departures, early retirement and long-term partial unemployment, does not exclude at this stage from having to proceed with layoffs.
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