It is quite simply unacceptable. The management of this multinational needs to be accountable to its workers and to the regions that the company has been based in for the last 50 years
Notwithstanding the financial aid that the company received from the regional authorities, Caterpillar’s management has taken the decision to wipe the site at Gosselies off the map, thus putting an end to 50 years of cooperation with the region of Charleroi.
"It is quite simply unacceptable. The management of this multinational needs to be accountable to its workers and to the regions that the company has been based in for the last 50 years," declared Luc Triangle and Benoît Gérits, respectively General and Deputy General Secretaries of industriAll Europe. "We will ensure that the company respects its duties with regards to information and consultation of workers, both at national and European
level", they added.
This new social tragedy, which highlights the unscrupulous behaviour of a multinational, reignites the debate on the need for European policies which foster sustainable and socially-responsible economic development and which eradicate all forms of social and fiscal dumping.