Peugeot Citroen announced that it will shut down the plant and lay off 8,000 people

According to an external news report, on July 12, PSA Peugeot Citroen announced that it will close the Aulnay-sous-Bois plant in France in 2014 and lay off about 8,000 people in France to promote a restructuring plan in order to stop losses. .

For the first time in more than two decades, the first French car manufacturer to close down under the pressure of low demand and high debt, Peugeot Citroen is working to rectify excess domestic production capacity.

Earlier this month, Peugeot-Citroen trade union official Jean-Francois Kondratiuk disclosed to Reuters that Valan told workers representatives on June 28 that the current total amount is 1 billion euros (about US$1.25 billion). The expenditure saving plan for ") is still not enough, so the company will close the Onai plant on schedule.

According to this plan, the planned facility in Onai will be terminated in 2014. Prior to Kardari Dike disclosed that the Onai plant will begin to close at the end of July and preparations are now in place.

The company currently employs more than 3,000 people at its plant in Ou Nai Souwa, mainly assembling the Citroen C3 model. The plant will be the first closed French car factory in more than 20 years. France’s new president, François Hollande, promised to revive domestic industrial production capacity. Peugeot Citroën’s move will undoubtedly pose a direct challenge to the policy.

Peugeot Citroen CEO Philip Varan told the media: "I understand how serious these measures are for the people involved and the entire company. But when a company burns more than 200 million euros per month (about 245 million When it is in US dollars, it is impossible to maintain the number of original positions. If the indecision is ambiguous, it will place the entire group in danger."

PSA Peugeot Citroën's reorganization of production capacity in the company's production facility in Ouni was transferred to the Poissy plant in western Paris. The group has informed the staff of the Poissy factory that the output of the Peugeot 208 compact car will be reduced by one third, and the production of the Citroen C3 will be increased.

Production of the 208 models at the Mulhouse plant in eastern France and the Trnava plant in Slovakia will increase, filling gaps after the Poissi plant's production cuts 208.

Denis Martin, head of PSA Peugeot Citroen's industrial department, declined to disclose the cost-saving targets of the new restructuring plan, but said that the Labor and Employment Joint Commission will publish detailed cost-saving measures next month.

Large-scale layoffs of 8,000 people According to estimates of former foreign media, there will be 1,500 to 2,000 unemployed persons in the Onai plant, but it seems that almost all positions are not optimistic.

Peugeot Citroen will also lay off 1,400 people at the Rennes plant in western France. With the weaker demand for higher specification vehicles such as the Peugeot 508 and Citroen C5, the plant's capacity was forced to shrink. Peugeot Citroen will also abolish 3,600 non-integrated vehicle positions in France. The total number of layoffs will reach 8,000.

Since the number of layoffs at the Rennes plant is likely to be higher than the previous estimate of 600, plus the probability of layoffs at the Sevelnord plant that is a joint venture with Fiat, will Peugeot Citroën be able to control the total number of layoffs at the level of 8,000 people? It can be seen.

On July 3, Christian Lafaye, Chairman of the Peugeot Citroen’s second-largest trade union FO, said that the company’s layoffs in France will increase to 8,000 to 10,000, far more than previously announced 4, 000 targets. By the end of 2011, Peugeot Citroen had a total of 100,356 permanent and temporary workers in France, and had 209,019 employees worldwide. Last year, PSA Peugeot Citroen announced that it will lay off 6,000 employees in the European region. If French employees are included, the two layoffs will total more than 10,000 people, reaching more than 10% of the total number of French employees.

French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Aero described the factory closure and layoffs as "extremely shocking" and said that the government is studying the plan, but it has not condemned it and has caused criticism from CGT, France's largest union.

Jean-Pierre Mercier, chairman of the CGT union, declared: "Varan has declared war on us and we will fight against him!"

Credit Suisse analyst Erich Hauser expressed his understanding of Peugeot Citroën’s decision: “People have not realized for a long time that they are consuming money at such a high rate. This (Peugeot Citroen) It is a company with few choices. Peugeot lost the advantage of the small car market in the European market, and that is its traditional pillar."