Zwevegem Not the news of restructuring at staaldraadproducent Bekaert is in the staff, if a surprise came, however, the heavy ontslagcijfers that accompany it. “The ordinary employee is the victim of the fact that the management of the profits at an acceptable level wants to keep,” says an employee Freddy Mahieu (45). “In the long term means this may be the total demise of Bekaert in Zwevegem.”
Incomprehension, anger, disappointment. Hundreds of employees of Bekaert in our region got on Thursday morning, inadvertently, in an emotional rollercoaster. On the special works council was a heavy restructuring announced. The plant in Moen (70 employees) will close. In the Bekaert Technology Center in Deerlijk losing 106 people their job. Other places to snag another 105 jobs, of which 61 are in Ingelmunster. Everything added up: a social bloodbath for 281 people.