Job cuts at ArcelorMittal: Moselle's elected officials write to the Prime Minister and hope for an appointment

One more attempt to hope to save the jobs that ArcelorMittal had lost in Florange (Moselle) on Wednesday, May 7. More than 20 mayors of the communities of Val de Fensch and Portes de France Thionville gathered to send a joint letter to Prime Minister François Bayrou. They asked for a meeting to give visibility to the future of the employees of ArcelorMittal group.

While ArcelorMittal is pursuing its social plan to eliminate more than 600 jobs, many are calling for the state to take control of French steel sites. As a matter of principle, the government refuses: the addition would be exorbitant. But is it really higher than the loss of a strategic sector?

In the face of the steel crisis, ArcelorMittal announced the abolition of 600 posts in its seven sites in the North and East of France. Trade unions and policies demand the nationalization of the company but the government opposes this idea.

The trade unionists of the steel giant ArceloMittal hope an informal exchange with the French president on the situation of the company. The opportunity was too good for the trade unions not to seize it. Emmanuel Macron will be in Nancy, Friday, to sign a treaty "Friendly and Cooperation" with the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk. He ...

The opportunity was too good for the unions not to seize it. Emmanuel Macron will be in Nancy on Friday to sign a treaty ...