The automotive group PSA will bring in employees from a Polish factory to strengthen its teams at the Hordain site (North), the unions denouncing Thursday at the end of a CSE a measure which leaves aside the temporary workers.
Next week, a “First contingent” of 120 employees of the Gliwice factory in Poland – producing Opel Astra – will arrive, then 150 will join them the following week, all for a three-month mission, housed by the company in the region and paid according to the French collective agreement for the sector, details the management.
Target: 531 more people
“The objective” is to reach 531 more people, to produce from the beginning of July in three shifts (morning, afternoon and night), against two currently, and to fulfill the pending orders of around 30,000 utilities.
“The group chooses to give activity to its employees”, we justify, while 80% of the employees of the Polish factory, which takes over ” gradually “, would be in partial activity. “Restarting is not done at the same level on all sites. “
The management, which claims to make no savings with this strategy, also plans to bring in employees from Zaragoza (Spain).
Not “nomads of industry”, for the CGT
The CGT, which voted against, “Will not accept that PSA workers become nomads in the automotive industry across Europe”.
“We are aware that PSA wants to favor the employment of its employees, but it is putting its temporary workers on the floor”, regretted Frédéric Jarousset (FO), who abstained. “We don’t want this to become a habit. “
Of the 500 temporary workers present in mid-March, only 270 remain, according to PSA, which has suspended their contracts with temporary work agencies.
PCF national secretary and deputy from the North, Fabien Roussel, was indignant that the company was doing “Come 531 Polish employees […], while 502 temporary workers are placed on short-time work ”.
” It is shameful ! PSA puts European employees in competition, oppose them by comparing their wages and causes unemployment in France. “, he wrote on Twitter.
The group also claims to temporarily send employees from Poissy at Reindeer, from Mulhouse at Sochaux and in England, from Ellesmere Port to Luton.
Hordain’s factory, close to Valenciennes, product for brands Peugeot, Citroën, Opel, Vauxhall and Toyota utilities and vehicles for the transport of people. It closed from mid-March to early May due to containment related to the covid-19 pandemic.
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