Canon: 30% to 45% of strikers - Le Figaro

The employees Canon electronics group were on strike Wednesday in the appeal of unions CGT, FO, CFDT and CFE-CGC, to protest against a plan to cut 453 jobs, with a rate of participation “around 30%” according to management, 45% according to unions. “We recorded 45% of strikers throughout France, with a large participation of the administrative and technical employees are mainly covered by the plan,” he told AFP Mohand Chekal representing the CGT union at first Canon .
Contacted by AFP, management estimated that the turnout was “rather around 30%.”

“The restructuring is still under negotiation, but in the end only 250 positions will be affected,” said a spokesman for Canon, without elaborating. “For administrative employees province, closing agencies leaves little alternative to dismissal suffered for those who do not have age requirements,” said a statement from the CGT.
Nearly 250 people gathered outside the headquarters of the group in Courbevoie (Hauts de Seine) in the late morning and headed in procession to the esplanade of Defense, according to the union.

In the late afternoon afternoon, general meetings must be held at all sites to decide whether the continuation of the strike. Moreover early September, the EC had sued company management on technical grounds relating to the restructuring plan, but had been dismissed, “the judge declared himself incompetent,” says Chekal
The Japanese group, which sells cameras, printers or components for industry employs over 190,000 people worldwide, including 2,600 in France.