Altis Semiconductor will lay off 400 employees

Goodyear-Dunlop yesterday announced the abolition of 820 posts at Amiens. Altis Semiconductor will lay off 400 employees. EDA (food distribution) was put into liquidation, causing 617 job losses. And 480 positions are threatened with Nortel (see page 21). In addition, unions have confirmed yesterday that the ABB group planned to remove 540 positions on half a dozen sites in France.

Goodyear-Dunlop Tires France.

Against all odds, Goodyear-Dunlop Tires France unveiled yesterday in a CEC project "to stop the production of tyres tourism" Amiens-North plant (ex-Goodyear). The Group also announced study different options regarding the future of its agricultural pneumatic division", which"that of the sale. This decision should result in the removal of 820 of the 1,400 positions of the plant. "The lack of competitiveness of the Amiens-North site and the absence of prospects for improvement, given the failure of the project for the creation of an industrial complex at Amiens, forced the group to this project", stated yesterday, the direction. With this plan, it is the spectrum of the black years recessional at Amiens. Informed since the eve of the announcement of the social plan, Gilles Demailly, Socialist of Amiens Métropole President, expressed yesterday his "anger" over a decision "unjust and incomprehensible." "Counting induced jobs, 2,000 employees are now threatened, he explains." The plant paid several million euros of tax each year. Its closure would be a disaster! We will support the Goodyear in their fight and we call all Amiens to show their solidarity with them. "President of Amiens Métropole calls on the Government and Parliament to intervene:" has a few days of the European elections, it is not tolerable to attend such competition between French employees and those of the countries, where the Goodyear-Dunlop Group continues to invest. "

Altis Semiconductor.

Since the disengagement of its two main shareholders, IBM and Infineon (ex-Siemens Semiconductor), Altis Semiconductor balance between hopes of a recovery and the fear of closure of its site in Corbeil-Essonnes (Essonne). The possibility of a takeover by a group of Russian investors away while being formally abandoned. And other projects of recovery by industrial groups are still in the State of assumptions. In any case no concrete announcement was made regarding a potential buyer as a result of an exceptional business Committee which was held Monday. On the other hand, unions indicated that management had announced on that occasion a new plan of dismissal affecting some 400 employees of the electronic components factory, or an employee on three. A meeting on the social dimension must take place tomorrow between management and unions. The date of the deletions of jobs, likely at the end of the year or the first quarter of 2010, must be specified on this occasion. In a statement, the General Council of L'essonne denounced "the dramatic impact of such a decision and drastic reduction of the payroll process," orchestrated by the management of the company In 2006, in a previous plan, Altis had already abolished 320 jobs and 101 term contracts had not been renewed.

EDA. The tribunal de commerce of Paris was yesterday delivered the judicial liquidation of the distributor of confectionery and beverages EDA (Euro Distribution food). This decision resulting in the removal of the 714 group jobs 617 was expected. In receivership since late March after a fiscal year 2008, which was led by 4.6 million euro of losses on 252 million euros of turnover of 60 million of debt, the Group of Noisy-le-Grand (Seine-Saint-Denis), had the object, according to the unions, that of a single proposal for resumption limited to two of its sites and 97 employees. Indeed, in the judgment, the tribunal de commerce "quit the partial assignment" for EDA in Pontivy (Morbihan) and Bourgoin-Jallieu (Isère) sites for the benefit of society Supergroup (food division of Group 1' say born in the bosom of Altadis) which incorporates 43 people in Pontivy and 54 to Bourgoin. The intangible assets transfer price was set at 700,000 euros. The tribunal "allows the deletion of the other 617 posts" in Liévin (North), Verdun (Meuse), Combs-la-Ville (Seine-et-Marne), Albi (Tarn), Parthenay (Deux-Sèvres) and Rousset (Bouches) and declared the liquidation of EDA. "The financial crisis has made hesitant our bankers and credit insurance and at the same time, our suppliers have hardened their terms of settlement, reducing our margin for manoeuvre," explained the Director General of the group in April.