Rennes. The Stellantis group relocates a workshop: “Ecological nonsense”

The news disappoints and challenges. The Stellantis Rennes factory will separate from its tool workshop, announced the automobile group during a meeting of the Social and Economic Council from Rennes – La Janais, Thursday June 27, 2024, the CFDT union indicates to the media. Nathalie Appérépresident of Rennes Métropole, also reacted.

This is a very bad signal. Deleterious impact on the climate, social leveling to the bottom: the effects of ultraliberal globalization and the frantic race for profitability are unfortunately known.

Contacted by news Rennesthe service communication Stellantis confirms that the activity of this tool workshop will gradually decrease. “We are not competitive enough to compete with the competition. »

During the discussion, the manager admits that this is a relocation in the strict sense of the term. ” But it is not not necessarily in Asia. Once the activity has stopped at our place, we will go through a call for tenders for specialists in the field.” In short, the company will subcontract.

Pour Laurent Valy, union delegate of the CFDT section at the Stellantis Rennes factory, “it will be Asia, we cannot compete.”

A new activity

Concretely, this workshop which employs approximately 80 employees on permanent and fixed-term contractsaccording to Stellantis, manufactures “the molds for automotive parts.” These employees will notably be converted towards “the activity that we are in the process of redeveloping: plastic injection ».

This practice will allow form plastic parts which will be used in the new vehicle, codenamed CR3, planned for 2025. “At the time of the marriage with Fiat, we recovered their skills in the field. We are going today locate part of this activity in Rennes”further explains the communications department of PSA-La Janais.

“We disagree with this strategy”

Faced with the situation, Laurent Valy denounces “a significant gap in the strategic choice of the group “.

This is ecological nonsense. We disagree on this strategy. She completely forgets the human aspect. Ultimately, there are job losses, not necessarily at Stellantis, but among subcontractors.

For plastic injection, it is an activity that we subcontracted and that we are taking over today, notes the union representative. But, At the end of the chain, it is a net loss of jobs.

“Plastic injection, we didn’t have that at home before. Our plastic parts come, among other things, from Plastic Omnium, now called OPmobility, in Guichen. The problem is that we will strangle our subcontracting. And they [Stellantis] will do what is necessary anyway. Then, they say that it will not eliminate jobs, but there is definitely a voluntary departure plan in progress »specifies the unionist.

As for Nathalie Appéré, this decision is incomprehensible. “On the contrary, the time has come to general mobilization to enable reindustrialization of our country, while accelerating the decarbonization of productive activities in the face of the climate emergency. This is the ambition that we are pursuing with the Industrial Excellence Center that we are building with our partners on the La Janais site.

Other concerns

Laurent Valy also points out the future of the Rennes site. “We will indeed have a new platform for the future electric SUV from Citroën. But unfortunately, there are no other projects. » The site will therefore end up as a single product. “Now, suppose that the vehicle does not work when exiting, we will be in a perilous situation. »

In autumn, in November, the Peugeot 5008 will stop being produced on the La Janais site. “The vehicle represents 60% of 360 models which leave the factory each day. We will therefore remove a team by the end of the year.

The Stellantis Rennes factory is 1,890 permanent and fixed-term employees and 200 temporary workers.

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