Up to 3,500 Michelin France Jobs to Go by 2011

A Michelin spokeswoman stated on June 25 that the company may cut up to 3,500 jobs from its French workforce over the next couple of years. The spokeswoman, quoted by Reuters, said “when you add up the 700 job cuts already announced when we closed our plant in Toul, the 1,093 job cuts of last week and an estimate of our workforce needs by 2011, which we see down 650 to 1,700 jobs due to productivity gains, we reach that figure of 2,400 to 3,500 jobs.”

The spokeswoman added that union representatives were informed of this estimate during a meeting on June 24.