Renault factory worker spared layoffs - for now

Giovanni Pili, a worker at a Renault factory in France, was on Friday savoring the fact that he was not laid off in a global shakeup at the carmaker, and trying not to think too much about the uncertain future facing his plant, and his industry.

Pili and colleagues at his factory in Caudan, north-west France, have been on strike all this week and protesting at the factory gates, anticipating their plant would be shuttered.Renault instead announced the plant - and its 385 full-time workers who operate forges making manifolds and exhaust bends - would be put under strategic review while managers try to find new customers for the components they produce.

Pili, a 44-year-old father of two who has worked at the plant for 20 years, received the news outside a local government office, where Renault managers were briefing union representatives. Le Goff came out of the meeting and climbed onto a railing to announce the plan to the crowd of workers.The factory was his first proper job. He was hired straight out of compulsory military service, and moved to Caudan from his home in Ardennes in eastern France.

Speaking the day before the announcement, he said if he was laid off, he worried about how he would pay off his mortgage, and the loan on his car, with just his wife's salary from her job as a dental assistant.

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