Charleroi would be relatively spared
Unlike Bruges – where the site seems to risk closing “If CAF does not have a partnership with Alstom”what unions want unions who believe that Spanish does not have sufficient production capacities to meet deadlines – Charleroi should be relatively spared. Relatively, because for this site where 1,300 people work (especially executives and engineers, few workers, editor’s note) work, we are slipped the figure from “50 to 100 jobs”, but without knowing if they are contracts that would be broken or engineers who would never be recruited.
“The federal government chooses to delegate this decision to a board of directors” says the socialist bourgmestre of Charleroi
“It is in any case bad sign for the development of the Charleroi site”castigates the bourgmestre of Charleroi, Thomas Dermine (PS). “It is above all a failed act for Belgian industry, and its historical tradition of the railway. It is quite incredible that amounts of this type, we speak of 3.4 billion euros, decide on the board of directors and not at the level of the federal government, which chooses not to take up the question … while displaying a job creation compass.”
“These are the same people who will talk about industrial redeployment and employment rate” gets angry with the CSC
The words are much more raw in the mouth of Fabrice Eeklaer, federal secretary of the CSC Charleroi Sambre & Meuse: “To pretend to play the rules of the game of free competition when we actually play with the socio-economic development of the country is to be cuckold. Neoliberalism has decidedly very damaging results. And it must be remembered that it is the same who speak the hand on the heart of industrial redeployment, 80%employment rate, etc. It is total inconsistency.”
Do not choose the national actor where thousands of people work: “We would never imagine this kind of situation with our neighbors”
