The mobilization is gaining momentum to save the factory the Fonderie de Bretagne, a subsidiary of the Renault group. In a letter sent to the Prime Minister on Thursday, the president of the Brittany region, the mayor of Lorient and five parliamentarians thus deem "closure" or a sale of the Caudan site in Morbihan "unacceptable".
"We wish to reaffirm our total opposition to a possible decision to close the site of the Foundry of Brittany of Caudan, as well as to any other scenario which would consist in inscribing the future of the site outside the fold of the Renault group", write these elected officials, including Loïg Chesnais-Girard, successor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian at the head of the Brittany region.
📢 Letter to @EPhilippePM and @BrunoLeMaire
There are only bad reasons to close #FonderieDeBretagne. With the elected representatives of Brittany, we will not accept that a competitive industrial site, which we have supported, its know-how and its 400 employees are sacrificed. #Renault pic.twitter.com/zryGsX7m6O
"Such a decision would be incomprehensible and unacceptable, as much for the employees, worried and plunged in uncertainty, as for all the actors of the territory", they insist. They recall that in addition to "the significant effort that the State will make", the Breton communities have already "twice granted financial support" in the amount of 8.2 million euros to "modernize this industrial tool, ensure its competitiveness and sustainability, and thereby participate in maintaining employment in our territory ”.
"All the ingredients for achieving financial balance"
"It is therefore a totally renovated tool, with significant know-how and production capacities, that we are facing", they write, regretting that "a significant volume of production continues to be offloaded in sites located outside the national territory, artificially maintaining the idea that the Caudan site would be structurally in deficit ”.
This site "concentrates all the ingredients to achieve financial balance, if the Renault group gives it the means to achieve it," say the elected officials. The letter, also addressed to the Minister for the Economy Bruno Le Maire, is also signed by the mayor (PS) of Lorient Norbert Métairie, two deputies (LREM) of Morbihan and three senators (EELV, UDI and LR) of Morbihan.
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