Airbus, Nokia, Hop! : thousands of workers demonstrate against the social plans

A plan of job cuts at Airbus threat 5000 posts in France, including more than 3500 in Toulouse. A demonstration of employees of Nokia has also taken place this Wednesday in Paris.

Several thousands of Airbus employees have expressed this Wednesday in the pregnant group, on the outskirts of toulouse, against the plan of job cuts announced by the aircraft manufacturer. This plan threatens 5000 posts in France, including more than 3500 in Toulouse, in the wake of the epidemic of Covid-19.

at the bidding of the three main trade unions, FO, CFE-CGC and CFTC, employees, massed behind a banner reading "No to layoffs" have gone through in the along the runways of the airport, to win the seat from the aircraft manufacturer, where a delegation was received by members of management.

This action, which has caused reprogrammations of "three or four flights" has been organized in collaboration with the prefecture in order to minimize the disruption of air traffic, said Florent Veletchy, steward central to Airbus of the CFTC and the third syndicate of the aircraft manufacturer.

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"A strong message but not declare war"

"We want to send a strong message, but not to declare war", while negotiations were initiated between the management and the trade unions, for which the red line is the "zero compulsory redundancies", an option that has not been excluded by the group's management. The trio union account on the departures, voluntary, an activity of partial long duration and training devices, to decrease the perimeter of the plane, expected to enter into force by the summer of 2021.

According to Florent Veletchy, "we can go further" that the figure of 1500 jobs that could be saved in France if the State contributes to sales advanced last week in an interview with the German weekly Der Spiegel by the boss of Airbus Guillaume Faury.

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The last mobilization of the magnitude of the Airbus employees in Toulouse, where the group and its subsidiaries employ 25,000 employees, dates back to 2010, when a rotating strike had been launched after the announcement of premiums for participation deemed to be derisory and ultimately re-evaluated. The aeronautics industry employs 90,000 people in the ex-region of Midi-Pyrenees.

events must also be organised in Saint-Nazaire and Nantes, two other sites in the group hit, with more than a thousand jobs threatened by the plan of cuts that also concerns the subsidiary Stelia Aerospace Airbus. Another event, this time at the call of the CGT is scheduled for Thursday between the headquarters of Airbus and the airport, in the context of a day of action to support the aeronautics industry.

thousands of employees of Nokia show in Paris

of The thousands of employees of Nokia have also expressed this Wednesday in Paris, not far from the national Assembly, to protest against the announced suppression of 1233 jobs in France. The demonstrators, many from Lannion (Côtes d'armor) by TGV special, marching behind a banner "The Tregor stand against job cuts". In the procession, the banners, CFDT, CGT and CFE-CGC voisinaient with placards, one of which provided : "Hired in march, hired in June".

The oem telecom finland plans to remove 402 posts in Lannion (Côtes-d'armor), and 831 to Nozay (Essonne) in 2021 in the context of a plan of voluntary departures, and with "solutions reclassification", depending on the direction.

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Wrath of the employees of Hop!

Another event that took place this Wednesday : the one organized at Morlaix (Finistère) in front of the site, Hop!, regional subsidiary of Air France, to protest against the closure of the site. Several hundred people gathered under a fine rain. "We were told: 'You're good, but in 2023 it is finished, so take your shovel and dig your grave'", plague Valérie Scattolin, 54, elected to the SSC, UNSA, and coordinating health, safety and environment on the site of Morlaix.

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"One is angry, one is against this project," says the employee of Hop! for the past 23 years, shortly before a meeting between the employees and the national directorate come to present its strategic directions to the year 2023. In this subsidiary, who was born in 2013 from the merger of the companies Brit Air, Regional and Airlinair, 40 % of the approximately 2400 jobs are to be deleted. Site maintenance at Morlaix, and Lille, as well as its database of flight personnel of Toulouse are threatened.