Roanne: unemployment Michelin

Faced with the crisis in the automotive sector, factory Michelin Roanne (Loire) will close three weeks instead of in December. The 900 employees will draw on their days off or RTT or will be partial unemployment. The announcement of closure of the site will be officially made Friday at an extraordinary EC. Much of 1 600 employees in the plant Blanzy (Saone-et-Loire) is also partial unemployment, in late December, for 6 to 9 days in three of the four areas of the site. "We ask our management to take responsibility for lost wages due to unemployment. (...) The company made profits of several hundred million euros without the employees have benefited from the fruits of their work, "the union denounces South Michelin majority on the site of Roanne. Michelin is facing a drop of 20% of the market "OE" (tires on new vehicles) in October. The plant has resigned from Roanne to produce only 4.03 million tires high-end and high-end in 2008 instead of 4.5 million. The management had already announced Oct. 31 that it would close the plant in Roanne for a week at the end of the year.