About forty employees have started this Monday morning, October 1, the entry of the factory of the American GE in Belfort. In particular, they demand hiring.
By Sophie Courageot
Posted on 01/10/2018 at 08:26
The blocking of the site began around 4am. Forty employees of the turbine and generator workshop blocked the entrances and exits of the site.
The American group is at the worst, some fear that the management takes a radical decision on the plant belfortaine and his little sister Bourogne, which until now was spared from the restructuring because of the agreement related to the acquisition of Alstom. An agreement that will end on December 31st. This morning, employees blocked the plant belfortaine. "We had a lot of promises, we want concrete and we ask questions" explained France 3 Lionel Mattes, elected CE General Electric. The latter denounces aging machines, aging workforce for a pole that wants to global.
In Belfort and Bourogne, the American GE employs 4,400 employees. The American giant General Electric (GE) is currently experiencing serious turbulence.
"Everyone is waiting, we do not know what will happen," summarized a few days ago Philippe Petitcolin, CFE-CGC union delegate and deputy secretary of the EC General Electric-Energy production France.
GE is one of the leading employers in northern Franche-Comté, just behind the PSA plant in Sochaux and far ahead of Alstom, since the absorption of its energy branch.
In both sites, there is fears of impending bad news, perhaps as soon as the quarterly results are announced at the end of October