His visit was eagerly awaited. The CEO of the PSA group, Calos Tavares, came to meet the management and employees of the Valenciennes plant on Tuesday. The site that produces gearboxes is saturated today. Since June, he can no longer cope with exploding orders.
However, Carlos Tavares asks them to significantly increase production. He would have asked to go from 1,800 boxes produced each day to 3,000 from November 1,according to information from France Bleu Nord. An unsustainable measure according to the unions.
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“It’s untenable for a number of reasons, we’ve lost 500 people in the plant in the last three years,” says a unionist, “there are so many temporary workers who are not trained properly. ‘We have completely dilapidated machines and in addition the increase in production that is requested concerns the most popular box.’
Technical unemployment in Sochaux
As a result of this failure, several of the group’s sites are idling in France and Europe. This is particularly the case of the Sochaux plant. The site has suspended production of Peugeot 308 and employees are unemployed.
“It is a loss of a big ten euros a day, so we could say that it’s not much, but all that accumulated for every day lost in the month on very small wages, it can become very problematic for many people, “says an employee of this site.
In total, since June, 12,000 vehicles could not be manufactured.