Technicolor gives tongue in front of a scarce public

The people, and the medias, waiting for the French minister in charge of the numerical economy were may be more numerous than those who watched the choir of some Tecnicolor employees singing in Ralliement square on Friday. At the beginning of the afternoon, few people paid attention to the sad tunes that employees wearing a white coat sang on the stairs of the Grand Théâtre...

Fleur Pellerin and the Angers mayor (Credit : Angers city)

But the good news is finally the minister, fleur Pellerin, came and delivered to the employees a kind of support. "We are, like the local authorities, mobilized to find a solution for Technicolor", said Mrs Pellerin. Such a solution could be a takeover by the Angers Oleane group of the factory but only 80 persons would be hired. She said that a one year of workload had been got from France Telecom. 

But the minister talked about something which looks incredible. "We have also some difficulties to get in touch with Technicolor", she said before to bring a charge against that group "which denies to accept its social duties", forgetting Technicolor was not the author of the reduction of the work time law which made since 15 years uncompetitive hundreds of French industrial companies and, consecuently, thousands of workers. That was precisely what a trade union leader said explaining the factory price (120 €) of a decoder was above the price paid for the item.

The inauguration of the new building of the Ecole supérieure d'électronique de l'Ouest, in the Saint-Aubin district, was an opportunity for Angers representatives to recall the tremedous importance of the electronic sector for the city. "The Eseo will be the first stone of a campus of excellence", they said. And useful to reclassify all who have been or will be laid off.