Mea culpa. Emmanuel Macron met Friday in Lampaul-Guimiliau, in Finistère, a hundred former employees of Gad pig slaughterhouse. The Minister of Economy apologized for having treated illiterate last September, when he had just been appointed at Bercy. He quickly then presented his “apologies to” expressed “regret” and promised to go there to apologize directly. What he did.
“It was a beautiful moment, I saw very beautiful people,” said Emmanuel Macron after the meeting, which did not attend the media. “It was very emotional, they are very proud of what they are and I am very proud of them,” he added, apparently conscious adjustments.
Macron thanked by employees
“Minister, we really wanted to thank you on behalf of Gad for what you did. It was just your honor for coming here today to apologize, “he said Olivier Le Bras, former delegate FO slaughterhouse, just before his departure.
“I was expecting a rougher finish than what happened. He was greeted coldly, but when he spoke it was felt the sincerity in his words and was applauded, “testified to Olivier Le Bras, adding that the Minister of Economy had met a hundred former employees around a galette.
Lampaul-Guimiliau abattoir was closed in 2013 after the dismissal of nearly 800 people.
“Turn the page once and for all”
Emmanuel Macron “recognizes that there is a problem of illiteracy in France, but Gad n ‘ was not the right example and apologized once for all, “said Olivier Le Bras yet reported. “I hope that France will now have to turn once and for all page illiteracy among Gad,” he added.
“Some employers are now spending French tests when we worked at Gad,” had earlier assured the former trade unionist, who led the battle against the closure of the slaughterhouse.
An employee always angry
A former employee has however offered to the Minister as he left the town a packet of pasta shaped alphabet. “His apology I do not take them,” he assured him, Yvon Milin, saying his remarks “unacceptable”. “Already, it’s not now that he had come, but when we were all present at the factory to protest against its closure,” he has said. On Twitter, the apology was sometimes hailed, sometimes ridiculed or criticized.
Of the 889 people made redundant in November 2013 -on Lampaul sites, but also of Saint-Nazaire and only Saint-Martin-des-Champs 193 found jobs on permanent or fixed term contract, said Olivier Le Bras, author of a book released on January 16, entitled The face of Gad .
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