France: PSA Peugeot Citroën signs competitiveness agreement

The CGT didn’t sign and mentions “an unprecedented social step backwards,” while the CFDT, which didn’t sign either, explains its decision by the fact that the management took no commitment to maintain employment and that no sanction is planned should PSA fail to fulfill its promises.  Indeed, the CFDT says that “while efforts in terms of pay freeze and moderation affect all employees, additional efforts (pay and flexibility) mostly affect production staff, especially those who work in teams.”  And such unfairness could have been lessened with the introduction of a clause of return to good faith which would have “provided for the conditions under which the employees concerned could have retrieved at least part of the amounts they sacrificed if PSA gets better.”  The SIA-GSEA still hasn’t given an official decision but implied that it was willing to sign.…