The Stellantis automobile factory in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) will stop its night work at the beginning of March 2024, a decision linked to the decline in the European market which will lead to the elimination of 600 temporary jobs across the entire site, he said. -we learned on Wednesday January 24 from a union source.
In April 2023, the Sochaux factory in the Montbéliard region stopped night work. 750 operators were then concerned. Temporary workers whose contracts were not renewed and permanent workers who had to switch to daytime hours. It is the same scenario which will affect the neighboring Mulhouse factory.
“The management of Stellantis Mulhouse informed the staff representatives, during the CSE (Social and Economic Committee) of January 24, 2024, of the end of the half-night shift from March 4,” announced the CFE section -CGC in a press release, specifying that “nearly 600 positions will be eliminated”.
These cuts concern temporary jobs, within the night half-shift as well as in the day shifts to make way for permanent night employees to be reclassified, said Ronald Laventin, CFDT delegate, who calculated them. to “630”. They will intervene as temporary contracts expire, specified the CFE-CGC and the CFDT.
Contacted by AFP, the site management confirmed the decision to stop the half-team and its effective date, without being able to announce a number of deletions, “which is in the process of being calculated”, said its manager. spokesperson.The measure constitutes “an adaptation of the organization of production to the downward trend in markets”, underlined the spokesperson.
The Mulhouse site will reduce the daily rate of the site from 1,030 to 830 vehicles, Peugeot 308 sedan and station wagon with thermal, plug-in hybrid and electric engines, Peugeot 408 and 508 and DS7 thermal and hybrid.
According to the unions, this slowdown in activity results from the accumulation of several factors. Added to the downward trend in the European market are “the geopolitical situation and the next elections, the reduction or cessation of financial aid in Europe for electric and hybrid vehicles, particularly in Germany, as well as aggressive price competition”, he said. listed the CFE-CGC. “Management wanted to take precautions” in the face of this context, observed Laurent Gautherat, CFE-CGC delegate for the site.
The half-team at Stellantis Mulhouse was installed at the end of August 2022. Its shutdown “does not call into question the permanent hires, numbering 112, which are scheduled on the site this year”, underlined the Stellantis spokesperson Mulhouse. The site will reduce its number of temporary workers “to a thousand”, for a workforce of 4,300 permanent employees, noted Mr. Laventin.
With AFP