Thursday, February 5, 2015

Ales false note in Harmony – Midi Libre

J ust after absorbing a alésienne competitor, Harmony Mutual wants to relocate fifteen jobs.

In early January, the Harmony Group Mutual leading French sector absorbs SMEMA, small historic Mutual employees of the City of Ales. “In the merger agreement, it was made clear that the two employees would be taken at Harmony on the site of Ales,” said Jean-Louis Blanc, who chaired the now defunct company. Harmony keeps his word … until the ceremony of vows, mid-January.



Feeling treason

After watching “a short video about the world wonderful Harmony “, employees learn that management has decided on a company’s reorganization plan nationwide. “In Ales, the agency that employs 7 people, will stay, says Michel Neyrat, CFTC union delegate. But the management center will close.” Fifteen employees is concerned, two former employees of the Smena. “The discussions on the merger began there a year and we never spoke to us. Now I am told that it was decided very quickly but I do not believe a word. It is not possible that we do not have rolled in flour “irritated the former president of the SMEMA.

In a statement, the leadership of Harmony Mutual, which was unreachable Tuesday 3 February assures that the restructuring of management centers will achieve a “better quality of service and greater responsiveness.”

“I do not want to leave”

Ales, trade unionists do not. “If there is need, the members who come to the agency can ride resolve problems directly to the management center. There, the service to the user will lose it,” said Michel Neyrat. As for employees, they are not threatened with dismissal, they risk distant mutations “. You hear about trips to Saint-Etienne and Clermont-Ferrand” What enchants little: “I took a loan, I bought a house, tells a former employee of the SMEMA My spouse works on Ales I do not want to leave…”

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