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Bottle and glass packaging producer Vetropack is implementing the closure of a manufacturing unit in Saint-Prex that was introduced ten days in the past. The first cancellation will likely be posted within the subsequent few days. It is understood that the ability will likely be closed till the tip of August, affecting 182 workers. Unions responded to this announcement by suspending work.
About half of the employment relationships will likely be terminated by the tip of August, the remaining positions will likely be regularly decreased till round 2026, Vetropack introduced on Friday. The decommissioning of machines and techniques after the manufacturing cease will take time, which is why every worker can’t be employed for a very long time.
At the second, negotiations are ongoing with unions and staff’ representatives relating to the welfare plan. Vetropack hopes to have the ability to current a particular social program “quickly”.
The unions have been indignant concerning the firm’s improvement. In an announcement on Friday, Syna and Unia wrote that Vetropack was “trampling” on the suitable to barter an actual public plan. Management refuses to reply to the “respectable calls for of staff”.
On Thursday (yesterday), staff rejected the corporate’s plan to announce layoffs earlier than negotiations have been accomplished. As a outcome, the employees suspended work till Friday morning (in the present day) to press for his or her calls for. They need the layoffs to be introduced earlier than the social safety plan is signed. (rbu/sda/awp)