Rennes (AFP)
Representatives of the employees of the Fonderie de Bretagne, on strike for more than three weeks, will meet on Wednesday near Rennes with leaders of the Renault group which has put their factory up for sale, we learned from concordant sources.
"The agenda of the meeting concerns the resumption of activity (of the Foundry, editor's note) but they agree to discuss on the basis of our demands", declared to AFP Maël Le Goff, delegate CGT of the Caudan site (Morbihan), near Lorient.
The Renault group told AFP that Jérôme Moinard, mechanical industrial director, and Maximilien Fleury, social relations manager, will participate in this meeting.
It must be held at 3:00 p.m. in Cesson-Sévigné, near Rennes.
On strike since April 27, employees are asking to remain in the Renault group and the return to Caudan of production volumes that have been relocated abroad.
Wednesday morning, the strikers carried out a snail operation on the RN 165 expressway, in the Vannes-Lorient direction, causing about ten kilometers of traffic jam.
At the same time, fairground people asking for permission to resume their activity were also carrying out a snail operation on the same road but in the opposite direction.
The employees of the Fonderie de Bretagne are beginning their fourth week of strike action while the Renault group announced on March 11 that the plant was going up for sale in order to "perpetuate activities and jobs".
Established near Lorient since 1965, the Fonderie de Bretagne, which now has 350 employees, manufactures suspension arms, exhaust manifolds and elbows, as well as gearbox differentials.
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