VIDEO – The CEO of Alstom was received by Christophe Siruhue, new Secretary of State for Industry, after the announcement Wednesday by the rail manufacturer of stopping its production trains Belfort within two years. For his part, Nicolas Sarkozy criticized Emmanuel Macron of “having done nothing”
Summoned to explain. Alstom CEO Henri Poupard-Lafarge was received on Thursday afternoon in Bercy. The new Secretary of State for Industry, Christophe Sirugue, sees “nothing at this stage is final” after the announcement Wednesday by the rail manufacturer of stopping its production trains in Belfort in two years. The Minister of Economy and Finance, Michel Sapin, was also present.
They asked the CEO of the group “to initiate a phase of discussion and negotiation” before “any final decision” on the plant in Belfort. The ministers “stressed (…) to Alstom is part of a copy and transparent social dialogue with trade unions,” which will be received “early next week” by Christophe Sirugue.
Alstom announced Wednesday the 2018 disappearance of branches production trains and engineering Belfort. On the site, 400 jobs are at stake. “All employees affected will be offered a transfer to another plant of the group, including that of Reichshoffen” said management. “The government is particularly attached to the rail industry,” responded Christophe Sirugue Thursday, citing “strong commitments”, including “to commandeer trains Intercity”. To mark his activism on the subject, Bercy said after the meeting require a “negotiation phase” with the unions, which will be received next week, and the state before considering “any final decision” on site. “Ministers asked Henri Poupart-Lafarge, before any final decision to initiate a phase of discussion and negotiation with the State, social partners, local elected officials and all stakeholders”, reads Bercy in the press published after the interview.
Denouncing “an ad that is both brutal and without consultation”, the Secretary of State for Industry has estimated that the decline in book commands is “a difficult period (…) we have to cross, but it is not either of the railway sector end in our country.” “I see nothing at this stage is final,” he said, adding that the issue “deserves obviously a much more concerted” and that “will engage a discussion.”
the former president Nicolas Sarkozy has tackled the former minister Emmanuel Macron, accusing him of having “done nothing” to save Alstom factory in Belfort. “When I think the Minister of Economy, Mr. Macron between his visit to Puy du Fou, vacation photos, and his resignation, imagine what must think Alstom workers to whom he had solemnly promised that and it would help save them. He left. He did nothing, it’s sad, “said to the press the candidate for the primary right during the visit of the Ecofit factory in Vendôme.
“Alstom is a company to which I devoted part of my life, as Finance Minister, as President of the Republic,” said the former head of state. “It’s a great company, with women and men who know how to make trains, train, subway trains …”
For his part, Segolene Royal said “we look very closely what is happening because nobody understands anything, “noting the coincidence of major order announcements, including the United States, and the restructuring of the Belfort site. The Minister of Energy found the ads from the rail manufacturer “brutal” and assured that the government was “attentive”.
“We need Alstom presents alternative site “
” When there are industrial change to do, (you have) whether mutations that are prepared, which are focused on the future, with new industries to set up related to the energy transition and innovation in transportation, “she said.
More virulent, Arnaud Montebourg, a candidate in the presidential election, held this closure programmed by the management of Alstom “unacceptable!”. “First, because it is a symbolic site, these are skills of over a century and especially it is a locomotive manufacturing site that normally should have the future ahead.”
“We need Alstom presents an alternative site, said the former Minister of Economy. Because we can not let a knowledge and an important industrial site. laissez-faire policy is to say we do not care. When the state is present in the capital of Alstom, in the capital of the SNCF, the minimum is to have a policy of economic patriotism. What I call the Made in France, “said the former minister, who during the negotiations for the sale of the energy turbines and Alstom had co-signed a decree with Manuel Valls to expand energy and transport companies the strategic protection mechanism against foreign appetites.
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