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At a special works council meeting this Tuesday morning Carrefour announced the closing of 21 stores. The company also plans to spin off or franchise part of the chain and to reduce the working conditions and remunerations for all workers.

1672 jobs will be lost.



UNI Europa affiliate Setca considers this restructuring plan completely disproportionate:



"Carrefour showed us that its main issue was the bad evolution of the sales figures. But rather than to announce measures to us to increase sales, they speak to us only about cost reductions. Gerard Lavinay, the director of Carrefour Belgium has obviously not understood anything," says Myriam Delmée, vice-president of Setca. "The social impact is much higher than the 1672 announced job losses: Mestdagh needs much less personnel than Carrefour for its stores. We therefore expect new job losses when the stores are taken over by this company."



"We are shocked by the large number of jobs that will be lost in Belgium," said Head of UNI commerce Alke Boessiger. "I appeal to Carrefour to re-think their position and to immediately enter into a dialogue with the unions in order to find alternative measures to make the company profitable again. UNI Europa and all UNI Commerce affiliates stand in solidarity with our Belgian colleagues."