Decryption – The government is refused for the moment to put the steelmaker under guardianship to save the 600 jobs threatened in France, as proposed by the leftist political forces.
Thursday, May 1, 2025 in Dunkirk, it floated in the air as a scent of the 80s, this time of the great nationalizations of the first seven -year -old of François Mitterrand. Coming in support of ArcelorMittal employees, threatened with layoffs, several figures on the left, from the first secretary of PS Olivier Faure to the National Secretary of Ecologists Marine Tondelier, passing by the deputies François Ruffin (environmentalist and social) and Aurélie found (LFI), called in choir to nationalize the steel. The French entity of the steel giant announced a few weeks ago a restructuring plan which must result in the abolition of more than 600 positions on seven sites in France, owes half that of Dunkirk.
If the file has also become political, it is because in the social problem of safeguarding jobs is superimposed an issue of sovereignty. ArcelorMittal provides materials from critical industries such as defense, automobile or energy. “We can’t …
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