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13/07/2009French car parts workers threaten to blow up factory

Workers at a bankrupt car parts supplier are threatening to blow up their factory unless they get paid a EUR 30,000 compensation.

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Chatellerault – Workers at a bankrupt French car parts supplier are threatening to blow up their factory unless carmakers Renault and PSA-Peugeot pay them compensation, a union official said Sunday.

The 366 employees of New Fabris in central-eastern Chatellerault, are occupying the plant to demand that the auto giants -- who accounted for 90 percent of their business -- pay EUR 30,000 (USD 42,000) to each worker.

"The gas bottles are in the factory. Everything has been planned for it to blow up," unless there is an accord by 31 July, Guy Eyermann, CGT union official and secretary of the company works council, told AFP.

The Chatellerault factory is thought to house car parts worth some two million euro, as well as a new Renault machine estimated at a further two million, the union leader said.

"We are not going to let PSA and Renault wait until August or September to recover the spare parts and machines still in the factory," he warned.

"If we get nothing, they get nothing at all."

Eyermann said two coach loads of workers had visited Peugeot headquarters last week, and a similar delegation would head Thursday to visit Renault bosses and the French employment ministry to try to negotiate a settlement.

They hope to force the state to put pressure on the carmakers, which both received public funds to help them through the global downturn.

The New Fabris workers, whose employer was declared bankrupt on 16 June, claim that Renault and PSA paid some EUR 30,000 to 200 workers laid off from another supplier, the aluminium specialist Rencast.

Founded in 1947 by two brothers, Eugene and Quentin Fabris, New Fabris started out making sewing machine parts, before branching out into the auto sector, employing up to 800 workers in the 1990s.

AFP / Expatica


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