Judgment of Solomon's High Court yesterday in Marseille. Unilever seized by a request for expulsion of sixty employees occupying the factory Fralib Gémenos, near Marseille, in the group and whose closure is in progress, the court responded favorably by holding the illegal occupation. He accompanied his deportation order for periodic penalty payments. But he gave a grace period in making them applicable not only from 1 June The judge also advises the Unilever management and employees to resume dialogue to resolve the conflict.
"We are very satisfied, commented yesterday Gerard Cazorla, CGT Secretary of the Works. The judge left the room for negotiation. The ball is in the court of Unilever, who must take responsibility. "
The judge "gives precedence to the force of law on the law of force" and "does not order you return to negotiations. He advises the sake of appeasement, "said Sophie Jayet, communications director of Unilever France. "Our priority is to focus on the reclassification of 103 employees who stay with Fralib after leaving 79 people, 80% found a solution that suits them, and the revitalization plan," she adds.
A series of three years
Employees, themselves, in hope that this delay will allow time to contact the new Minister. Francois Hollande had come to meet three times during the campaign. He promised not to let them down. He had mentioned the possibility to pass a law prohibiting the closing of an industrial site when there was a buyer overnight pay day loans.
"The Fralib" do not have a buyer, but they want to be in scop to continue the operation of the site. For this, they claim that their leaves Unilever ownership of machinery (what the group is willing to do if the project is "viable and sustainable"), Elephant brand and a sub-contract of 1000 tonnes per year for five years, Unilever refuses. They also claim that local authorities preempting the field that does not belong to Unilever.
The closure by the Unilever group Fralib plant, which manufactures tea bags and brewing under the brands Lipton and Elephant, is one long soap opera that has lasted nearly three years. This is the smallest of the four tea factories and tea of the European group and the least profitable. "It provides 5% of the group for 27% of costs," does one justify the group's headquarters and "to make Gémenos costs three times more expensive than in Brussels, while production was going to 90% for Belgium ". Hence the decision to close Fralib to concentrate production on the three factories.
But workers are fighting for months for their scop, they claim viable with 1000 tonnes of production and 100 employees. At Unilever, we calculated that it will lose 9 to 12,000,000 euros a year
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