“The Philips factory will close.” Said employees wear reflective vest.
Next spring, the site of Hitachi will close. It currently has 169 employees (yesterday’s edition). Twenty kilometers away, Loir-et-Cher is the Philips factory lighting and its 89 employees are doomed.
The group has announced it will close the site solognot 31 August 2017. This produced lighting for shops, supermarkets… “Production will be transferred to Hungary,” says one of the employees who yesterday with colleagues, dressed in a yellow vest, presented a petition in the businesses.
A group had moved in the morning to try to challenge François in Orleans.
According to the employees in reflective clothing encountered yesterday, the average age of the workforce Philips lighting is here 47 years and seniority in the company of about 20 years.
There are two years already, a voluntary departure plan saw the removal of forty-two positions.