Subcontractors of Audi Brussels will gather on Monday from 10:00 to 12:00 at Albertine Square in Brussels, unions announced on Saturday.
The unions are urging workers and activists to mobilise to demand social protection for subcontractors and a reform of the Renault law that includes all workers.
The Renault law obliges companies to have a consultation period with the workers before any mass layoffs due to redundancy. It took its name from the closure of Renault factory in Vilvoorde with a loss of over 3,000 jobs, which later caused the emerging of the law.
“Today, these men and women bear the brunt of an industry that refuses to take responsibility for all its workers,” stated CNE Industrie. “They are deprived of their fundamental rights, abandoned in the face of growing precariousness. Solidarity among workers is our most powerful weapon.”
The closure of the Audi Brussels plant, which employed more than 2,900 people, is scheduled for the end of February.
