In Tourcoing, visit a textile workshop subcontractor of the Pimkie/Diramode group. In this workshop the safety conditions for employees are questionable and the manufacturing times extremely short. The trousers manufactured are sold at 13 francs per unit to wholesalers in the region. The labour inspectorate refuses to comment while the Diramode/Pimkie group insists on the perfect legality of subcontractor workshops. Interview with M YOENG, head of the Yoeng Confection workshop and Bernard DUJARDIN, municipal councillor.
Affected for several decades by the textile crisis, Pimkie, founded in 1971, announced to seek "an external shareholder solution". In January, Philippe Favre, a specialist in the management of companies in difficulty, was appointed Managing Director. The search for a buyer is experienced by employees as a shock. Interview with Emmanuelle MERZEAUD, CGT.
Nearly 400 Pimkie employees gathered in front of the headquarters in La Madeleine. They protested against the job cuts announced on May 14. The stores would not be affected, it would be 52 positions in IT, finance and human resources, and half of the workforce at the depots, or 138 positions in Wasquehal and Neuville-en-Ferrain. Management presents Pimkie as four entities that should be transformed into a single company, able to fight competition. A meeting is planned between unions and management. Interviews with Farida LAMNIH, order picker at Wasquehal, Isabelle LEMOINE, HRD Pimkie International, Fabrice DEKYNDT, secretary of the CE-CFDT Diramod (Pimkie), and Valérie PRINGUEZ, CGT Pimkie delegate.
The Pimkie Group, in full economic growth, recruits in all sectors. Interview with Georges DZUIDZIA, Managing Director of the group, who reviews the openings of new stores and describes the profiles of the positions sought. He says that, despite the textile crisis, the company continues to source from France. As for the positions of store manager, the word must be conjugated to the feminine... The interview is illustrated with images of Pimkie offices and stores.
Pimkie’s gonna go down in social history in her own way. This is the first company to want to implement a plan of 208 job cuts through the conventional break, a device provided for by the new labour law. Mention of the concern of employees, in terms of job loss and low redundancy compensation. Presentation of the simplified procedure and without necessary reason for employers. Interviews with Valérie PRINGUEZ, secretary of the union "CGT" of the Works Council of "Pimkie", Joël GRANGE, lawyer of the firm "Flichy Grangé avocats", and an employee of "Pimkie" with a hidden face.