Evreux-based railway seat maker Compin will cut half its workforce through 55 layoffs, the CGT reported in a press release to AFP on Friday.
The company, “which despite announces a constant increase in its global activity in its European factories, has decided to close production in France”, affirms the CGT again.
The CSE of the company, majority owned by the investment fund Trainvest, had been “informed” this Tuesday of this PSE and of the holding of another meeting on Thursday, September 1, so that the CSE is “consulted”, explained the union . in AFP. Contacted by email, the company did not respond and could not be reached by phone.
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The company, whose second shareholder is the Public Investment Bank, has already suffered job cuts, says the union: “in 2010, 280 employees and 120 temporary workers worked for Compin in Evreux.” The union denounces the attitude of the principals.
According to a CGT trade unionist who preferred to remain anonymous “since 2017 and the equipment contract for the Omnéo trains in the Normandy Region, there have been no new contracts”. “We also suffer from a lack of activity at the local level. Even if we live with a sword of Damocles hanging over our heads, we are shocked,” he added.*
According to the CGT, the project comes at a time when “the railway market, both in construction and rehabilitation, is booming”, while it must adapt “to the needs of reducing the ecological footprint of travel “.
Source: BFM TV
