ArcelorMittal: Government urged to scrap metal to preserve jobs

The left at the blast furnaces. The national secretary of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, the three candidates for the Socialist Party congress, Olivier Faure, Boris Vallaud and Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, and the deputy of the Somme François Ruffin, held a joint procession on Thursday in Dunkirk for May 1st. to make the ArcelorMittal site an emblem of social protest: on April 23, the steel giant (1.34 billion euros net profit in 2024, + 45% year on year) announced the elimination of 636 jobs at seven of its French factories . Rebellious elected officials, including the president of the Assembly's economic affairs committee, Aurélie Trouvé, also marched to express their fear that "Macron [will betray] Dunkirk like Sarkozy betrayed Gandrange, like Hollande betrayed Florange."

And the executive... at work? Under pressure, it is not escaping the trial of impotence. "The government is showing cowardice, it is not proactive, there was no emergency meeting with ArcelorMittal and the elected officials."