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Violent Clashes in France. Goodyear Workers Clash with Riot Police Over Plant Closure.

Six years after a first draft restructuring, employees of the factory Goodyear Amiens North rioted, Thursday, March 7, at the headquarters of the French tire manufacturer in Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine on the occasion of a new central committee (IAC) on the proposed closure of the site.

In suburban street usually peaceful few hours after the event, still floating smell of tear gas and burned tires, running clashes between the protesters and security forces, the direction of clashes Goodyear convicted. Jets bottle or projectile employees responded with tear gas and violent jets of water cannons Police to push hundreds of protesters from the Somme.

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It is of minor injuries on both sides – nineteen in the ranks of the police, according to a police source, and five demonstrators hospitalized, according to unions – a riot truck to the metal burned and dozens of bottles, cans and egg shells littering the ground. One person was also arrested “for throwing projectile on forces and participation in a gathering arm é “ .

 

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“The world is sick worker to be crushed “ , said Jean-Louis Ditte , mechanic 48 years that “twenty-four Goodyear” . “This deployment of law enforcement, this is a provocation” , added Philippe Dufaux , operator of 43 years, for thirteen years in Amiens North. “We, we just want to protect our families” , he added.

After six years of struggle, the workers say keep hope when management announced in late January its draft close the plant, “only option after five years of fruitless negotiations” , she says, to safeguard the competitiveness tourism and agricultural sectors of the group.

“The announcement effects of management are on the morale of employees” , lamented Christopher Verecque , non-unionized employee, listing “the project four hundred job cuts first, then eight hundred, then a voluntary redundancy plan and the project aborted Titan … “ Despite the drastic reduction in production volumes, employees Amiens North, some say they do not work for an hour or two a day, have a strong attachment to their factory .

 

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Elected officials have also fought to preserve the jobs at the CEC, which centered on the conclusions of the expert report Secafi, they mandated measures accompanying social and economic analysis about the proposed restructuring .They had to do the “alternative proposals” to close the plant Amiens North, threatening 1,173 direct jobs and about 500 indirect, according to Didier Raynaud(CFDT).

CFDT among other defends the trail of a potential buyer and that a voluntary redundancy plan for seniors that could affect about 400 people up to 56 years. The CGT has highlighted only a draft SCOP (cooperative and participatory), detail it in mid-March.

 

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During the meeting , elected CGT and CFDT have passed four resolutions that willallow the CEC to initiate actions in justice to denounce “irregularities” , according to them, in the process of information and consultation of the CTE and the Committee of European business. They will also be found the “lack of information on the economic situation of the CEC group” and “indigence PES [backup plan employment] in relation to the means of the group” .

CGT and CFDT also believe that management has transferred production concealed Amiens North to other group sites, which, according Mickaël Wamen, CGT is “constituting a fraudulent restructuring” . “The reorganization began there for quite some time” , said Didier Raynaud also stressing  “Today we are 2600 passenger tires per day for a capacity of 22  000 “ .

Their lawyer, M Fyodor Rilov , said that all lawsuits would be launched “in the coming days” . They will “thwart the project management, as in 2006″ , when it announced its intention to remove more than 400 positions.

 

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The report confirms loss Secafi farming Goodyear.

Goodyear should inject 100 million euros to upgrade the tourism business and 20 million for agricultural activity in Europe has lost 22.5 million euros in 2012, according to the firm Secafi expertise, appointed by the central works council to study the proposed restructuring of the group. CFE-CGC has asked management to “open negotiations on a voluntary redundancy scheme and the two legally separate entities production (agricultural and tourism), not to scare a potential buyer of agricultural activity.” ”However, the chances of recovery activity is still very small , “ said the union.

For CGT representative Mickael Wamen, the report Secafi is “ truncated “ . Indeed, the increase in Group profit Goodyear “from 0.4 billion in 2009 to 1.2 billion in 2012, an increase of 300% “ , he assures. In February, the U.S. tire manufacturer has yet announced that its earnings fell 43% last year.

The group posted a net profit in 2012 of $ 183 million. It fell to zero in the fourth quarter, against 18 million a year earlier. Goodyear spent in particular its quarterly charge of $ 85 million, primarily related to the closure of Amiens North.

 

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