The Technicolor employes fear dark future for their factory and themselves

The employees of Technicolor, the former Thomson company located in Angers, are worried by the dark clouds which are getting close to their factory. Put in June into receivership, the Nanterre Tribunal of commerce has set the September 6th as the end of the delay for the running extension. The decision the judges will have to take on that day depends on the takeover projects and on the load of work in the factory.

After they demon-strated in front of the Maine et loire prefecture a few days ago, the employees of Technicolor and their supports, about 400 persons, shouted their anger in front of Angers town hall on Thursday morning before a march along Foch boulevard. According to their motto, their fate could already be sealed. "The Technicolor mangers want to get rid of us after an history started in 1954", they said urging people and public authorities to take initiatives to avoid the loss of about 350 jobs.

That morning, these persons wearing their white coat looked more to distraught employees than fierce demonstrators. Most of them, men and women, have already reached the fifties and feel legitimately to be thrown away after years of dedication to tv sets, the symbol of the industrialization of Angers more than fifty years ago.