PSA Peugeot Citroen will be able to close its Aulnay plant near Paris earlier than scheduled after reaching an agreement to move half the workforce to another factory.
Peugeot has presented plans to begin moving half of Aulnay’s 3,000 workforce to its Poissy plant, within days or weeks – more than a year ahead of schedule.
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The carmaker’s restructuring plans have divided unions and sparked protests and stoppages at several of its factories. The closure of the Aulnay plant was scheduled for 2014 but Peugeot said the early transfers were requested by several unions following reports of intimidation and violence against workers opposing the CGT union’s call for strike.
The company told the Reuters news agency that it was ready to transfer works as quickly as possible.
The plans for relocation of of Aulnay workers were backed by the CFTC, CGC and SIA unions at a works council meeting earlier this week and could be adopted on February 15. That would eliminate one factory shift, as 1,500 workers will begin moving to the Poissy plant west of Paris, which, like Aulnay, assembles the Citroen C3 model.
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