In Aulnay-sous-Bois in Seine-Saint-Denis, the automobile equipment manufacturer MA France, which employs 280 people, was placed in liquidation this Monday by the Bobigny commercial court. Employees of the Stellantis subcontractor factory have been on strike since April 17.
The Bobigny commercial court on Monday placed the equipment manufacturer MA France, the last automobile factory in Seine-Saint-Denis, into compulsory liquidation, employing 280 people in Aulnay-sous-Bois and a subcontractor to the automobile giant Stellantis.
More than a hundred MA France employees converged on Monday afternoon in front of the Bobigny judicial court to ask the prosecutor to appeal the decision to cease activity, noted an AFP journalist. A large police presence blocked access to the court.
A union delegation from the equipment manufacturer, accompanied by LFI deputies Aurélie Trouvé and Nadège Abomangoli, was received by the Bobigny prosecutor, Eric Mathais. “The prosecutor does not close the door to an appeal,” declared the secretary general of the Departmental Union CGT 93, Kamel Brahmi, at the end of the meeting.
“What is happening is very violent. In one month, we lose our jobs,” lamented Franck Ermagan, a 45-year-old worker who has been with MA France for 17 years. “We are thrown out like dirty, without negotiating our rights, without a bonus, we don’t even have time to turn around and look for a job,” lamented this bridge operator, dedicated to moving heavy loads.
The employees of MA France, owned by the Italian group CLN (7,000 employees, turnover of one billion euros), have been on strike since April 17 to save their jobs. The company stamps essential bodywork parts for small Peugeot or Citroën utility vehicles and also for Renault. The Bobigny commercial court did not maintain the company’s activities while awaiting its liquidation by agents.
The mobilization of MA France workers shut down three Stellantis factories for several weeks. More than 80% of the parts that come out of this equipment manufacturer are intended for the Franco-Italian-American automobile group. The French Minister of Industry Roland Lescure asked Stellantis and Renault to support MA France employees, on the sidelines of the signing of the automobile sector contract, in Bercy, a week ago.
According to Stellantis, MA France “encounters structural competitiveness difficulties which handicap it in the acquisition of new markets. The inflationary context (materials, labor, energy) also impacts its profitability”.
The unions, for their part, criticized the automobile giant’s choice to relocate. Stellantis must in fact begin assembling its new utility vehicles in a Turkish factory in 2025.
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