During a CSE, a business social committee this Tuesday, September 30, the Historical Sochaux factory in the Doubs, which has 6,500 employees has just announced several days of stopping car production in the coming weeks. We explain to you.
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This is a blow for employees who will see their schedules upset, their pays also for some. The management of Stellantis Sochaux explains to France 3 to “adapt to the constraints of suppliers” and confirms that “Fridays October 10, 17 and 24 will not be worked, as well as the night tours of Sunday, October 5 and Friday, October 31.” She adds that “training sessions will be offered on these H- sessions for staff who wish.”
This will concern around 2500 people specifies the management. The constraints encountered are notably linked to batteries and gearboxes. A thousand 3008 and 5008 cars are produced every day in Sochaux.
According to the CGT, this is not a problem of order notebooks. But management faces a lack of parts, including long -term batteries for cars 3008 and 5008. These batteries are produced in Douvrin in the North, a site where Stellantis has ceased since 2025 the production of thermal engines. A transition is being done for the benefit of a resumption of industrial activity by the company Automotive Cells Company (ACC), a joint venture founded by Stellantis, Totalenergies (via Saft) and Mercedes-Benz, for the production of electric batteries on a neighboring “gigafactory”, inaugurated in May 2023. Sochaux command book.
In the absence of parts, it is all the production of the Sochalian factory that will be stopped on certain days. ¨2000 people will not work these days, “sums up the CGT.
The management of Stellantis will use the “rebounded” long-term partial activity system (APLD-R), set up after the finance law for 2025. A system that allows companies, especially industrial such as Stellantis, to cope with a lasting drop in activity without compromising their sustainability, by reducing or temporarily suspending the working time of employees while preserving their employment.
Employees concerned can see their salary reduced during stop periods, they may be brought to work more over another period.
In Sochaux, this year, this is not the first time that production has been paused. In June 2025, production in Sochaux had been completely stopped for several days following A major mechanical breakdown on the main press of the stamping sector.
The CGT has issued an unfavorable opinion on this disorganization of employees’ work and privacy. “For our temporary colleagues they are wage days still by less” deplores the union.
Management is still greeted with state aid with the APLD regime. For us, the wealth of the company must allow 100% to pay all employees all contracts combined. ”
CGT Stellantis Sochaux
“The smoothing of production is the solution to work all week without loss of salary and without disorganizing the life of employees and in better working conditions“ estimates Jérome Boussard, general secretary, DSC assistant Stellantis.
The union deplores that the strong management of its agreement starts the meter and/or APLD systems which will result in the loss of 16% per unemployed day for employees on permanent contracts. “In a period when ends of the month are increasingly difficult, his announcements are a real blow for Sochaux workers,” concludes the trade unionist.
In the Haut-Rhin, the management of Stellantis Mulhouse also announced the cessation of the production of the terminal unit manufacturing the 308, 408 and DS7 models for a week, from October 27 to November 02, the CFE-CGC union said in a press release.
“Management justifies this judgment by a difficult context for the automotive industry”, with “a drop in vehicle sales in Europe” and “aggressive tariff competition which weakens market share” explains the union.
The CFE-CGC denounces “a continuous deterioration of the industrial situation, with direct repercussions on the employment and stability of production sites”.
A spokesperson for Stellantis France confirmed this decision, which concerns nearly 2,000 employees out of 4,700.