Alcatel-Lucent joint industrial action in Belgium

We must swiftly and massively react on the announced social massacre

The company decided to convert the merge into a nightmare.

Alcatel and Lucent had regained recently their stability, profitability and dynamism, after the crisisthat started in 2000. Nevertheless, according to the company's management the number of lay-offs will be huge, i.e. 12500.

The bad results of Q4 are given as a reasonto force management for an additional cost reduction of € 300 million.

As always, in management's logic these cost savings must primarily be accomplished by massive lay-off. This is the primary method management knows.

These blind and systematic lay-offs, intend to keep the shareholders happy, put the employee with their back against the wall.

The employees do not accept that they must once again pay for the errors made by the company's management.

Having the ambition to become the world leader in telecommunication is no reason to organize a ravage between the staff.

APPEAL to suspend work on Thursday, February 15, at 11.00 h.

On Thursday all employee of Alcatel-Lucent in Europe will suspend work for 30 minutes, to protest against the lay-off of 12500 colleagues.

Stand by each other and suspend work at 11.00 for 30 minutes!