Bad news for the 4,000 employees working in three-shifts for the Toyota car manufacturer in Onnaing, near Valenciennes (Nord). They will find themselves on technical unemployment, at least until December 28. “We were warned by text by the management”, indicates Antoine, an employee, at the microphone of RTL. The factory was initially scheduled to close Thursday morning, after the night shift, for the holidays. This is one of the consequences of the suspension for forty-eight hours of all movement of persons from British soil, “including those relating to the transport of goods, by road, air, sea or rail”, after the appearance of a new variant of the coronavirus in the United Kingdom.
“In view of the shortages of parts expected due to transport delays and the uncertain nature of the duration of the border closures for logistics activities, Toyota Motor Europe, Toyota’s European headquarters, has decided to proceed with a controlled shutdown of its activities. production for its French site (Toyota Motor Manufacturing France) and its two English sites (Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK) ”, the communications department of the French factory in Onnaing, near Paris, told AFP on Monday by email. Valenciennes. However Valenciennes, which imports several spare parts from the United Kingdom, is no longer supplied from this Tuesday morning. “The site, which has about 7 hours of stock, will be able to produce until the end of the morning shift, ie 1:30 p.m. The Tuesday afternoon and night shifts will therefore be canceled, as will the three shifts. scheduled for Wednesday 23 December, ”added the Japanese group.
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“The stocks are on the roads in the trucks”
“Before, stocks were in warehouses; now the stocks are on the roads in the trucks ”, regretted Éric Pecqueur, CGT delegate. “It’s the just-in-time principle. “The truckers can not come, they are stranded there”, recalled Thomas Mercier, CFDT union delegate, after the holding of an extraordinary CSE Monday. According to him, this decision could also have consequences for the factory in Poland, which manufactures the engines of the Yaris. Production could restart on Monday, December 28 afternoon, “if the situation evolves”, according to management.
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