CGT general secretary Sophie Binet warned in an interview of a “very strong acceleration of the deterioration of the situation” in terms of social plans, mainly in industry but also in other sectors, citing up to 200,000 jobs threatened. with Les Échos that will be published this Wednesday, November 27.
While in May it spoke of 130 social plans that represented 33,021 direct jobs eliminated or “strongly threatened” (60,000 counting subcontracting and temporary work), at the beginning of November about 200 social plans and 150,000 jobs threatened by a “violent industrial hemorrhage.” , Sophie Binet evokes “almost 250 layoff plans in preparation, affecting between 170,000 and 200,000 jobs”, in this interview before a press conference on the sector that will take place on Wednesday afternoon.
“A tidal wave”
Sophie Binet fears “a tidal wave” in the coming months, fearing cascading plans: “These plans are applied especially in large companies, restructuring runs the risk of having consequences for small subcontractors, who are much more numerous,” warns the leader of the CGT.
To explain this increase in power, Sophie Binet points out “the responsibility of large companies”, which according to her “chose during the period of inflation to increase their margins and their prices to increase their dividends”, with the consequence of a drop in investments. , a fall in salaries in constant euros “and therefore a reduction in consumption.”
She also disagrees with the supply policy applied since Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year mandate, which she says is “a political shipwreck.”
Among the emergency measures defended by Sophie Binet: “a return to regulated prices” of energy for industry, “that take into account production costs” and the investments necessary for the relaunch of nuclear energy; Europe’s establishment of “more protective” customs barriers; but also “a reinforcement of the Florange law”, which obliges an entrepreneur to look for a buyer in the event of a closure project and its extension to SMEs with 50 or more employees. In the longer term, he calls for “genuine general sector meetings to get everything back on track.”
Source: BFM TV
