he previous event brought together between 5,000 and 8,000 people in June 2019 to support the employees of the gas turbine entity of General Electric de Belfort.

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  • General Electric unions are calling for a demonstration on October 24 in Belfort.

  • This sounds like a mark of support for employees who could lose their jobs with the disappearance of the Hydro activity.

  • The unions want to "preserve skills" and "a unique industrial tool", built "with public funds", underlines Christian Mougenot, metallurgy coordinator of the CFDT of the Territoire de Belfort.

On October 24, many General Electric (GE) employees are expected to be on strike.

An inter-union (CFDT, CFE-CGC, FO, South) of the group's eight entities in Belfort in any case called Tuesday for a large demonstration that day in "support for GE employees", and "to say stop to dismantling of the site ".

After the job cuts in the gas turbines entity in 2019, a new plan should lead to the disappearance of the hydro activity (gas turbines, steam, and systems for hydroelectricity) in Belfort, with 89 reductions of posts.

Threats also hang over the steam activity, that of nuclear power plants, according to the unions.

They point out that GE's Belfort site has already lost more than 1,000 jobs over the past five years, going from 4,500 employees to around 3,400.

"It's all Belfort that is threatened"

The October 24 demonstration will be “against deindustrialization” and “for technological, industrial and energy sovereignty”, underlined Philippe Petitcolin, of the CFE-CGC.

“Belfort is the only city in the world where you have all the energy sectors”.

The unions want to "preserve skills" and "a unique industrial tool", built "with public funds", also noted Christian Mougenot, metallurgy coordinator of the CFDT of the Territoire de Belfort.

"Each employee threatened by General Electric, it is the whole ecosystem of Belfort which is threatened", adds Alexis Sesmat, for Sud Industrie.

A previous demonstration had brought together between 5,000 and 8,000 people in June 2019 to support the employees of the gas turbine entity of General Electric de Belfort, which had just announced a social plan of 792 job cuts.

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  • Belfort