This Wednesday, July 7, the Court of Appeal was to rule on the suspension or not of the judicial liquidation of the Haut-Jura company. 270 employees will lose their jobs. An appeal to this effect was filed by the social and economic committee (CSE) of the foundry.
Unsurprisingly, the Dijon Court of Appeal does not order the suspension of the judicial liquidation of the Haut-Jura foundry. The scenario seemed inevitable. Suspending would have meant giving MBF back the responsibility of paying salaries, but the foundry no longer has cash. “We can only see that there is no money”, admitted in hearing on July 6 the lawyer of the CSE, Georges Meyer. “It’s a big disappointment, even if the decision of the Court of Appeal is not a big surprise, we had little chance of winning, but we had to try” reacted Koray Sukran, South delegate of MBF.
The judicial liquidation will take its course, with the arrival at the end of the week of the letters of dismissals for the employees. In the absence of a takeover project that held up, the foundry was placed in receivership on June 22. The Saint-Claude site produced casing parts for the car manufacturers Renault and Stellantis.
The liquidation of the MBF Aluminum foundry means 270 fewer jobs in Saint-Claude in the Jura.
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The inter-union and some of the employees continue to occupy the site to preserve the machines. The “MBF” continue their fight and hope to be able to lead to the creation of a Scop, a cooperative and participatory society which would thus preserve some of the jobs. The Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region had undertaken to support a takeover project with a subsidy of 1.8 million euros. Renault would have taken a step assures the intersyndicale. “Following the occupation of the Renault Sofrastock site in the Eure, we had a contact. Renault via Mr Moustaki undertook to look at our Scop project, and to help us on this, he opened a small door for dialogue “ hopes Koray Sukran, elected South.
Employees continue to occupy the foundry for the moment. “We maintain our working tool … We will not let anyone into MBF” warns the trade unionist.
MBF, a social and judicial component
The foundry is in the headlines of social news, with 270 layoffs to come in the heart of the summer, in a basin of the Haut-Jura already damaged in Saint-Claude. The foundry is also of interest to justice. On June 24, the Lons-le-Saunier prosecutor’s office opened an investigation for “misuse of corporate assets”, due in particular to “suspicious fund movements”. In April 2021, the daily Le Progrès revealed that 8 million euros from MBF had gone to a British holding company owned by Italian shareholder Gianpiero Colla. Were these money transfers justified? The investigation will tell.
On October 14, the Dijon Court of Appeal will again evoke the liquidation of MBF, to judge this time on the merits, the appeal filed against the liquidation.
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