The conflict in Ukraine could have serious consequences for Alstom employees in Belfort.
The French giant had almost completed a large contract with Ukraine for the order of 130 double locomotives.
Except that this contract could be called into question, fear the unions…
The repercussions of the war in Ukraine, new episode.
In Belfort this time, with the unions of the Alstom site who fear the questioning of an important contract which was to be finalized in the coming days.
This provided for the delivery of 130 double locomotives to Ukraine.
"With what is happening, there is a good chance that the contract will be abandoned," said André Fages, CFE-CGC delegate and elected representative of Alstom's central CSE.
"The management is studying two scenarios", according to him: either "we stop everything by the end of the month", or "we wait to see how things will evolve by the summer" and "we leave a reduced team ensure continuity.
This contract, worth 880 million euros, was to ensure work at the Belfort site “until the end of the decade” and “gave us visibility for eight years”, underlines Mr. Fages.
“But here we will have to work with visibility for two, three or four years, so it is much more distressing”.
CGT delegate Eddy Cardot also confides his “concern about the future of the Belfort site”: in addition to the ten-year workload, this contract provided for “a lot of recruitment”.
"Recruitment has been frozen and employees are afraid of reliving 2016, when it was a question of closing the Belfort site, which has nearly 500 employees", he continues, before qualifying: "it all depends on the turn of events ".
"Alstom is following the dramatic situation in Ukraine very closely", but "it is still too early to speculate on possible commercial or industrial impacts, whether in Belfort or elsewhere, if this contract is not ultimately signed", added said a spokesperson for the French railway manufacturer.
2.4 billion euros over 40 years
The CEO of Alstom Henri Poupart-Lafarge signed on February 8 in Kiev, under the eyes of Emmanuel Macron, a memorandum of understanding on the purchase of these 130 freight locomotives, which provided for the signing of the contract before March, 31st.
This contract, the financing of which was the subject of an intergovernmental agreement during Bruno Le Maire's visit to Ukraine last May, should amount to a total of 2.4 billion euros, if we take taking into account the maintenance of the locomotives over 40 years, specified the spokesman.
The LR mayor of the city, Damien Meslot, said he was “very worried” for the Alstom Belfort site: “We will have to find new markets to compensate in the event of cancellation”.
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