Workers at a bankrupt French car parts supplier have threatened to blow up their factory unless carmakers Renault and PSA-Peugeot pay them compensation, a union official said on Sunday. The 366 employees of New Fabris in central-eastern Chatellerault, are occupying the plant to demand that the auto giants - who accounted for 90 per cent of their business - pay 30,000 euros (£26,000) to each worker."The gas bottles are in the factory. Everything has been planned for it to blow up," unless there is an accord by July 31, Guy Eyermann, CGT union official and secretary of the company works council, said.The Chatellerault factory is thought to house car parts worth some two million euros, as well as a new Renault machine estimated at a further two million, the union leader said."We are not going to let PSA and Renault wait until August or September to recover the spare parts and machines still in the factory," he warned."If we get nothing, they get nothing at all."
The 366 employees of New Fabris in central-eastern Chatellerault, are occupying the plant to demand that the auto giants - who accounted for 90 per cent of their business - pay 30,000 euros (£26,000) to each worker.
"The gas bottles are in the factory. Everything has been planned for it to blow up," unless there is an accord by July 31, Guy Eyermann, CGT union official and secretary of the company works council, said.
The Chatellerault factory is thought to house car parts worth some two million euros, as well as a new Renault machine estimated at a further two million, the union leader said.
"We are not going to let PSA and Renault wait until August or September to recover the spare parts and machines still in the factory," he warned.
"If we get nothing, they get nothing at all."
