18 October, 2012

Technicolor employees in the middle of a battle between government, France Telecom and their heaquarters

In the failure of the takeover procedure of Angers Technicolor, who is responsible? The government, through its minister of Numerical economy, Fleur Pellerin, who claimed, when she came in Angers to inaugurate the new Eseo campus, that a contract for the manufacture in Angers of decoders has been signed between France Telecom and Technicolor and that this contract has been broke by Technicolor France? Or, is it France Telecom, noticing that Technicolor would not be able to produce the decoders in time, which broke the contract and gave the workload to Sagem?
 
The employees says they are not able "to tell fact from fiction"? But,"in the end, it's the Angers employees who will pay the price while they could manufacture decoders for a company in which the French state has 27% of the capital stock", say the angers trade-unions.
The minister's arguments are called into question by those. Why could be the interest of Technicolor to break a one year contract? Moreover, if the deadline was so important, why Sagen has not yet produce the item? One of the trade unions leaders, Odile Coquereau, accuse the government to protect France Telecom. During that time, Angers employees of Technicolor demonstrated under a heavy rain in town among colleagues of other local companies.

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