Thursday, September 1, 2016

Miribel: 139 jobs will be eliminated at Philips – The Progress

The information was first broadcast by email. Addressed members of the Central Committee (CEC) of the works councils and union representatives, the message was quickly distributed to all employees. A special committee will meet Tuesday, September 6 to engage the procedures that will be spread over about 16 months. 139 posts should be deleted.

“Before we were proud to work for Philips’

” We are in shock, explain more employees, Philips Rather, used to implement business successive attempts. There, it seems they have not sought to save the site. “

Disillusioned, they are also as they have seen their working conditions deteriorate in recent years. “We were proud to work for Philips, a large international company well treated his employees,” say several of them, before summarizing: “Before, there was satisfaction surveys in workshops. They stopped there two or three years. Then there were split between sectors, in February, a change in governance in France and worldwide. And now, the latest production sites in France are found offshore, Spain, Poland or Hungary. “



A” betrayal “banner on the gates of the site

Another production site in question, that of Lamotte-Beuvron (Loire et Cher), which has 89 employees, will close permanently.

All the others have experienced similar fates in recent years. The major concern of employees concerning management proposals to start negotiations, “Far below what is usual with Philips. Between three and ten times less than other waves of population, like that of 2013 “, said the staff

An employee illustrated by his personal journey.” I wanted to leave in 2013 because I ‘ had a project. With my seniority, I would have touched a comfortable amount. They held me, like others who did not have profiles they wanted to go first. In the end, I’m afraid to touch ten times less. Not enough to bounce back. I feel betrayed “

The site entrance is now decorated with two banners, one of which, screaming, accusing him of” treason. ” . As the expression of sentiment that seems to dominate

54% of the 260 employees of the site are affected by the transfer of business: the 80 employees in the sector of production and fifty-nine from peripheral services.

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