No Ascension Bridge for the factory Renault from Sandouville. Closed since May 7, following a court decision, the plant is expected to reopen on Friday, May 22. This decision was announced this Wednesday, May 20 in the morning to the unions of the factory, which produces the Renault Trafic and derivatives of the van for Fiat and Nissan, during a CSE devoted to the sanitary measures planned on site.
The factory, which employed around 1,900 people last year, was the second French factory for Renault to resume partial activity at the end of April.
The Justice decision had caused an uproar among some unions and politicians because it had occurred only a few days before the start of national deconfinement. The Havre court, seized by the CGT, had not called into question the health protocol chosen by the group but it had criticized the procedure followed for the presentation of the measures to the unions.
Renault and CGT Sandouville were not immediately available to comment.
Earlier in the day, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Secretary of State to the Minister of the Economy, welcomed the reopening of the factory. “It is very good news that this site can reopen. We must move forward, companies must be able to resume,” she said on the LCI channel.
With Reuters (Gilles Guillaume, edited by Gwénaëlle Barzic)