“It is exactly the furniture that we design and do here. »»
We see the assembly of a table, a shoe furniture. “It is exactly the furniture that we designed and manufactures here, not the same colors, but the same models”, enrage Stéphane Guesdon, FO delegate in Nersac. “In fact they close us here, to better open there. It’s disguised relocation! »»
“We have also found local Moroccan press articles where CEMA Bois de l’Atlas details that it has invested 15 million euros, 12 million in the melamage of wood panel and 3 million in a furniture workshop in kit,” adds Grégory Boucheron-Métraud, elected CFDT.
A request to be able to sell the Nersac site
Millions of euros that Charentais employees would have preferred to see invested in their production tool. “When the Safari group bought us three years ago, it was committed to modernizing all the production sites of CBA furniture and not to resell any of the land, buildings in the next 10 years. But we have never seen the color of these investments. While the furniture market has evolved. We are equipped to make mass, now we need smaller series. We would have needed other machines to have a chance to get out of it, “breathes the employees, aware that the million euros in monthly loss of the set of CBA furniture (grouping together Nersac and the sites of northern France) was not tenable for the group.
A little over a week ago, they also learned that Safari had deposited, last November, a request for inalienability of all the assets of CBA furniture. This would allow him to sell, earlier than the 10 -year period planned, the land and buildings of closed sites like that of Nersac and that of Lompret in the North.
A PSE at a discount but signed
“They bought at the court of the court the equivalent of more than 70 million euros in assets for 5 million euros,” recalls Thierry Delporte ex-secretary of the CSE and CGT delegate of CBA Furniture, based at the headquarters in Pérénchies, in the North. “Today they want to sell family jewelry,” he worries. On Wednesday, staff representatives went to court. They claimed and obtained the return of the hearing to May 28.
It is in this “raging” context that the employees signed this Wednesday the final conditions of the PSE, which grants the 85 Charentais employees the legal minimum, as well as a small supralegal bonus. “It is a discount PSE, which does not correspond to the means of the Safari group, which makes 800 million turnover, but the employees of Nersac asked us to sign it, they preferred to run, so we listened to them,” agree Thierry Delporte and the Nersacais delegates. “They are relieved,” reports Jérôme Jarreton.
30 positions were opened in Pérénchies and offered to the licensed employees of Nersac. “But no one wanted to go,” describes the CGT delegate. “The destination was not really attracting and the future of the CBA site of the North is not reassuring”. “The 363 employees of CBA Pérénchies are very worried about the future,” confirms Thierry Delporte.
In Nersac, the 85 future licensees will have to continue to produce until June 30. Joined, the management of CBA furniture did not respond to our requests.
