- The car manufacturer PSA will create a third team at its northern site in Hordain to cope with "strong industrial activity".
- This team was initially to be made up of some 500 Polish employees of the manufacturer.
- The outcry generated by this initiative reduced PSA, which reduced the number of Polish workers posted to the North to around 100.
The automaker PSA presented, on Monday, the final composition of the workforce of the third team set up in the northern factory of Hordain to respond to "strong industrial activity". The workforce will be composed mainly of temporary workers, but will ultimately include at least 124 Polish employees, against the 500 initially planned.
Management initially wanted this third team of some 530 people to be made up almost entirely of foreign employees, mainly Polish, which had caused the ire of the unions and prompted the government to put pressure on the car manufacturer to review its copy.
A global workforce made up of 5% foreigners
This team "was initially thought with a spirit of solidarity by offering the opportunity to the voluntary employees of the sites which are without activity to come to lend us a helping hand", explained to AFP Luc Samsoen, director of human resources of the site d 'Hordain, following an extraordinary CSE on Monday on the site. According to the HR manager, the Polish factory in Gliwice, where the Opel Astra is produced but which is in partial operation, had said that it could "lend" up to 400 employees.
Finally, this new team, which must be fully operational in mid-July, will therefore be made up of 124 employees from Gliwice (Poland), 235 temporary workers and 174 other people, either from European factories or from temporary staff. In total, the factory will therefore have 2,500 employees including 5% of workers from European factories, said management.
This device aimed at responding to orders for commercial vehicles should work for three months while awaiting "more visibility" on its sustainability, which will depend "on the pursuit of commercial success".
"We have to make sure that everyone works where they live"
Monday, Frédéric Jarosset, FO delegate, welcomed "a big setback for management". “What we want is for our temporary workers to be given priority and that's what has been done. According to him, at the start, this third team was to be made up entirely of foreign employees from Poland, but also from Spain.
The subject of mobility between factories "worries us", but "we also say that if PSA Hordain were to no longer have a job, if employees were offered to go to work for three or six months in another company instead being unemployed is the best thing, but it mustn't become a habit, "he said.
A subject which worries the CGT much more: “PSA wants to make sure that the worker works where management has decided. Today, they are workers from Gliwice in Poland, tomorrow it will be the workers of PSA Hordain who will be asked to work on any site in France or in Europe ", denounced Franck Théry, secretary general of the CGT PSA d'Hordain.
“We have to make sure that everyone works where they live. The management says that PSA Hordain is missing 531 people, so we have to hire 531 temporary workers in France. Given the unemployment rate in the region, there are the necessary resources! "Launched Mr. Théry, denouncing the transformation of workers into" nomads of industry ".
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