Renault denies plans to close French factory as irate workers start strike
31 May 2020 - 18:45
Renault chair Jean-Dominique Senard sought to defuse a crisis over the Maubeuge factory in northern France where workers have started strikes and protests over the carmaker’s cost-cutting programme, saying he was not planning to shut the site.
“I have no intention, a priori, to close the Maubeuge plant,” he said in an interview Sunday on RTL-Le Figaro-LCI’s Le Grand Jury. “I can assure you, I never said that and I didn’t even think that.”..
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