In a very scathing press release published on May 24, the European Metalworkers' Federation (EMF) and Nexans' European works council denounced "the retrograde practice on social relations" used by the Belgian subsidiary of the French group, which would have proceeded to the removal of parts of the stock and tools located in the Belgian site of Huizingen before announcing "in the same breath" that it intended to partially shut down the factory. The subsidiary's management denies this removal and confirms that "facilities are intact and operational". Belgian unions are ready to have a fight. (Ref. 070460)
According to the EMF, the company would have proceeded, during the Ascension weekend, to the removal of all the Huizingen factory’s products stock and the production tools towards a “subsidiary located in Slovakia”. Belgian unions would have found the tracks of this equipment in a warehouse belonging to the logistics company Eutraco, next to Charleroi. For the subsidiary’s management, these are not stock or production tools, but simply “finished products coming from Slovakia”, which were tempor
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