Near Toulouse, Scopelec employees are very worried about their future
This Monday, September 19, the employees of the Scopelec company at the Saint-Orens-Gameville site (one of the sites of the Scop, whose head office is in Sorèze, in the Tarn), met at 8 a.m., in the company of several Nupe deputies from Haute-Garonne and the deputy from the Somme, François Ruffin. Following the loss of the Orange contract last March – a contract which assumes 40% of the company’s turnover – Scopelec is now threatened with compulsory liquidation.
If the deputies present called on the employees to come and mobilize on Friday in Paris in a last last stand, the workers remain largely worried.
“For us, it’s dead, it’s scandalous what is happening. We have always been there to make ourselves heard, whether in Paris or with the candidates during the elections, but that hasn’t changed anything. We just have to change jobs, we can’t go to work for the competition, it would be treason, ”explains Merzouk Mecibah, employee of Scopelec.
Deadlocked negotiations
Without a solution by next Monday, the company would be forced to lay off nearly 500 employees. For their part, employees remain in uncertainty. “We learned of the mobilization last week, we are told nothing, at least nothing reaches our ears. Until then the management said that everything was fine,” testifies Algia Hasni, another employee.
Orange would have found a foreign service provider, which Michaël Jeauneau, telecom technician at Scopelec, deplores. “Today, Orange prefers to work with a less expensive Luxembourg subcontractor. But before that, Orange suffocated us, the company is only losing money with the constraints that were imposed on us. The low prices did not go with the costs, we were almost paying Orange for the work done. »
Many employees called to make their voices heard next Friday in Paris, the company will not be fixed on its situation on September 26 if no agreement with Orange and the State (23% shareholder) is found until then.