Muriel Pénicaud has also regretted the decision of the court of the Haven, pointing the responsibility of the SGC.
“I regret the decision of the CGT to Sandouville”, breath Bruno Le Maire. The government has strongly criticized Monday the closure of the factory of Renault-Sandouville, obtained justice by the CGT, considering this decision as “bad” for the French automotive industry, which is currently “in great difficulty”, but also to “employment”.
The closure “is a decision that is bad for Sandouville”, but also for Renault, while the automotive industry is “in big trouble”, said the minister of Economy on BFM Business.
While the factory in Sandouville (Seine-Maritime) had been resumed on 28 April with a health protocol validated by the CFDT, CFE-CGC and FO, the court of le Havre, seized by the CGT, was sentenced last Thursday in the interim Renault “to suspend the resumption of production” because it is “not sufficient to ensure (…) the safety of workers”.
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According to the minister of the Economy, the reasons put forward by the CGT are “extraordinarily vulnerable”. “I consider that the social dialogue has been conducted at Sandouville, and that the conditions of health and safety had met to re-open” the site, he estimated.
unions “play with fire”
“there are trade union leaders today who play with fire by not encouraging them not enough employees in the social dialogue and the respect for the decisions that were taken collectively”, said the tenant of Bercy, considering the closure of the plant “bad for the French nation (…) at the moment where we want to relocate industrial activities”.
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“I’m surprised that today – and I think that this would not have been the case a few years ago – a trade union plays a technicality to block the job,” said his side the minister of Labour Muriel Pénicaud on LCI, saying it was “shocked” by the CGT.
“Renault has been working with its unions on the protocol of health to be able to do the recovery in a way that is safe for employees,” stressed the minister of Labour, ensuring that 700 temporary workers were not going to be able to return to work on Monday morning.
“Renault is a manufacturer with which we are all attached, all the world knows that it is a very difficult situation for the car at this time. Sanitary conditions are met. I find it shocking that a trade union plays against it,” she added.
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“Renault plays its survival,” warned Bruno Le Maire, Renault is planning the end of its automobile production to the Flins Coronavirus : the justice ordered the provisional closure of Renault’s Sandouville
The plant, which has 1848 members, has stopped its production on march 16, because of the epidemic. In his interim order, justice has asked Renault to suspend the production “the time of the effective implementation of measures such as “organize and deliver to each of [the] employees before they return to the workforce with practical training and appropriate”.