After one week of bitter debates, the management of ArcelorMittal and workers’ representatives, assisted by the Region of Wallonia, reached a “draft social agreement in principle” that maintains 945 jobs and also provides for the creation of a subsidiary with the Region, a knowledge cluster and a dismantlement company to save 400 more jobs. For the file to be closed, the fate of the 362 “pre-retirement” workers still needs to be determined by the consultative early retirement committee. (Ref. 130786)
As a reminder, in this dragging restructuring (see article No. 130577) punctuated with strikes, terminations of talks, the intervention of a federal mediator was necessary to reach this draft agreement.
Draft social agreement. To summarize, ArcelorMittal will keep, in total, 945 workers instead of the 845 decided earlier. Employees (137 workers in packing, handling and perfection) who should be outsourced will be moved to a subsidiary to be created together with the Walloon region. With the €
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