The PS president of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, Marie-Guite Dufay.

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The president (PS) of the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region Marie-Guite Dufay calls "for the umpteenth time" to Emmanuel Macron so that he seizes the file of General Electric (GE), the American group which is preparing to cut 300 new jobs in France, including 240 in Belfort.

“For two years, all my requests have gone unanswered,” she laments.

"General Electric continues its social destruction and no one is surprised any more," Marie-Guite Dufay still indignantly.

With the 240 jobs “sacrificed” in the Steam Power branch, which produces turbines for nuclear and coal-fired power stations, the group “risks endangering our energy independence and our national security”, she is alarmed.

"I plead for the acquisition by EDF and Framatome of the entire energy branch of GE in order to recreate a French energy champion", continues Marie-Guite Dufay, specifying that she will participate on Tuesday in a new monitoring committee of the fund. development of GE in Bercy.

The unfulfilled promises of Alstom Energy's takeover in 2015

The regional president indicates that she "will support there, against the advice of Hugh Bailey, CEO of GE France, the project submitted by the employees of GE Hydro" to resume their activity.

In September, GE announced a large restructuring plan that could lead to the elimination of 83 jobs out of the 89 in this sector in Belfort, according to a union source.

When the energy branch of Alstom was bought out in 2015, the American giant had 16,000 industrial jobs in France (excluding GE Capital), according to management figures, and promised to create an additional 1,000.

Five years later, GE's workforce was reduced to 13,000 employees, at 17 sites in France, while more than 2,000 employees left the group's workforce as part of asset disposals.

"The responsibility of the State is fully engaged in the current situation", for its part points out the CGT in a press release also published Friday, accusing the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire of "playing pyromaniac firefighters".

“He runs after the media to say that the government is improving the industrial situation.

At the same time, its administrator validates this scrapping plan "of Steam Power, deplores the union, which pleads for investments" in the tools essential to the energy transition ".

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