Renault's CFDT on Friday welcomed the agreement "to ensure the future" which will create a manufacturing center for electric vehicles in Hauts-de-France by merging three local entities of the group into a subsidiary called Renault ElectriCity .

The union, which "will sign this agreement on Tuesday in Douai" (North), "is committed to this new chapter to be written" and to "the defense of employees", underlined Lionel Langlais, central union delegate (DSC) deputy of CFDT-Renault.

The automotive industry, which "has lost 30% of its jobs since 2008, must look to the future to halt such a decline and give hope to employees in the Hauts-de-France employment basins in large part. difficulty, ”notes the union in a press release.

This agreement, which “the CFE-CGC will also sign” according to its DSC Guillaume Ribeyre, will make it possible to merge the current Renault entities in Douai, Maubeuge (Nord) and Ruitz (Pas-de-Calais) to create the new structure Renault ElectriCity.

This “100% Renault subsidiary” will be created “from January 1, 2022”, indicates the CFDT in its press release.

6,000 employees on the different sites

Ultimately, “at least 400,000 vehicles” will be produced, “distributed” on the sites of Douai and Maubeuge, details the union, specifying that the electrical pole will “employ nearly 6,000 employees”. “The long-term objective is indeed to produce 400,000 vehicles,” confirmed Guillaume Ribeyre. "The current employees of the three sites integrated into the new subsidiary" will see "their net remuneration unchanged", he pointed out. The electric pole "would also include a 'giga-factory' for manufacturing batteries, in Douai, with more than 1,000 additional jobs at stake," adds the CFDT.

"The objective is to do everything possible to allow the establishment of this factory in Douai", noted Guillaume Ribeyre.

"All the lights are green to build a battery factory in Douai", an "essential" tool, but "who will come?"

“Asked Lionel Langlais, indicating that this subject“ raised ”with management remained“ completely opaque ”.

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