While many social plans have been announced in France in the wake of the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus, the PSA Sochaux site is recruiting 250 temporary workers to once again reach its pre-Covid production level.

An exception in the current period.

It is a real economic UFO.

From Renault to Air France, via Nokia or Auchan, many social plans have been announced in the wake of the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus.

However, the PSA Sochaux plant is doing very well.

It even announced the recruitment of 250 additional temporary workers for the opening of a new production line.

So inevitably, the workers of this emblematic factory of the group are in heaven. 

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"It's still a pride to have a job"

"I am proud and happy", loose for example a worker at the microphone of Europe 1. "It will make the region work", rejoices a colleague.

A situation all the more exceptional that 20 kilometers away is the General Electric Belfort site, which was already cut by 485 jobs last year.

"We still see that there are many places where it is very complicated today, where employees risk ending up in the street", analyzes Eric Peltier, Force Ouvrière.

"So there you go, it's still a pride to have a job."

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"We wouldn't have bet on it so quickly"

As for knowing the recipe for this unprecedented success these days, the production manager of the PSA Sochaux plant, Christophe Montabot, does not hide that there is a part of "luck".

That of manufacturing "the Peugeot 308 and 3008, two cars voted vehicles of the year whose success is unabated".

"It's true that returning to a pre-covid production level only six months later, we would not have bet on it so quickly."

And in the coming weeks, no less than 9,000 people will work on the site, producing 2,100 vehicles per day.