His first visit in Florange during the presidential campaign in 2012 had raised hopes among steelworkers. He promised to do everything to prevent the extinction of blast furnaces in the steel site, finally occurred in April 2013. Many employees had then considered their closure as a “treason” of the head of the State
Read decryption. Florange, Gandrange: presidents pass, pass away the promises
“COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGN”
The president is scheduled to meet in the morning former employees reclassified furnaces, staff representatives and management of the ArcelorMittal site. Some unions have, however, declined the presidential invitation, the General Confederation of Labour called on workers to protest, denouncing “political communication campaign” . Workers Force preferred “call to indifference” .
Of the 629 employees of blast furnaces, about 320 have returned to a position internally on other ArcelorMittal facilities Florange, 40 went to work at other sites of the group and the others took early retirement. ArcelorMittal opportunely announced this week 30 hires in fixed-term contract in Florange, the first at the site since 2008, when still working about 2200 employees.
As for the € 180 million investment commitments by the Group to modernize its site, they are “on track”, according to management, and could even be brought up to 238 million euros, according to the Elysee. In an interview with Republican Lorraine on Monday morning before his visit, Mr. Holland insists also that “government commitments and promises made by Mittal were respected.”
MESSAGE BY EX-MINISTERS WHEREAS BY TRADE UNION
When asked on France Info, the former minister and Socialist MP Moselle Aurélie Filippetti has not been kind to the president. “In Florange, much hope had been raised during the 2012 campaign,” , she noted. “He made very strong commitments to a real industrial policy, a real voluntarism, creativity in the economic” , she stressed. But “realpolitik caught him in the fall of 2012. It was a turning point in the five-year”.
On RTL, another Former minister, Cécile Duflot, took the opportunity to criticize the new government’s economic policy, which, she says, “exacerbates inequality” and “creates unemployment.”
In addition to certain steel producers, actors could disrupt the highly rounded program of the president. Starting with a delegation of employees Ecomouv ‘of Metz, whose fate is uncertain since the abandonment of the environmental tax by the government. According to a union source, many of them rely challenge the president failing to have obtained a formal interview.
Moselle as in the Meuse, angry farmers also want to speak to the head of the state. “If he does not come to us, we will come to him,” has promised Thomas Perrin, president of Young Farmers in Lorraine.
OPENING OF A NEW FACTORY IN THE MEUSE
In addition to the site of Uckange, Francois Hollande will also open in the afternoon a new Safran-Albany plant in Commercy (Meuse). This parts production site for the new generation of aircraft engines LEAP (for Leading Edge Aviation Propulsion – a new generation of jet engines) opened its doors in the spring. It already employs more than 90 people and is expected to generate 400 direct jobs by 2018.
Mr. Holland will be accompanied by Jean-Marc Todeschini, promoted secretary of state for veterans after the resignation Friday Kader Arif, quoted in a survey to favoritism. Strong man of the Socialist Party (PS) and close to the Moselle president, Todeschini was a key player in Florange folder. It is to him that the PS is rallying the local leader of the French Democratic Confederation of Labour, Edward Martin, promoted top of the list in the European elections on the list of the Great East.
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