By Jo Best, 19 September 2005 11:40
NEWS Bad weather didn't put HP employees off showing their dissatisfaction over planned job cuts in the company. On Friday, more than half of employees answered the call to strike, which was put out by a group of trade unions including the CFTC and CGT, according to official figures.
A spokesman for the CGT told silicon.com's sister site ZDNet France that 90 per cent of the employees at HP's site at Ulis in the Essonne region - "that's 350 to 400 people", he said. At Grenoble, 1,200 went on strike, 200 at L'isle d'Abeau in Isère, another 200 at Sophia-Antipolis in Alpes-Maritimes and 300 at the company's French headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux.
On the morning of the strike, Patrick Starck, the head of HP France met with Gérard Larcher, minister for employment. No information has yet become available on how the discussions went.
HP France has planned the layoff of 1,240 employees as part of a restructuring plan which will affect 10 per cent of the workforce globally.
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