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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

In United Kingdom.

We learned that the distribution center locate in Newhaven will be closed in January 2007. 46 people will lose their job. You can read a article in a local newspaper. So if they want to cont@ct their French colleagues, they will be welcome. We will be happy to join all our resources.

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Saturday, July 15, 2006

Show must be stopped !

Newell Rubbermaid decided to fire 257 French workers of our French factory (Reynolds Products) because of cost reduction and Acceleration plan. It's a very bad news for the workers of course, but it's a bad news for shareholders to. Indeed, these workers were competent and experienced. But Newell Rubbermaid decided to forget this knowledge. The sentence on the bottom of the picture means Reynolds will not write yours stories anymore.

Next Monday (Monday 17^th July), delegates will meet François Loos, the French minister of industry, to inform him about the consequences of the Newell Rubbermaid decision.

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Saturday, July 01, 2006

On strike.

After the meeting, 90 % of the employees of the Factory in Valence put a struggle against the reorganization project for 3 days (27 th, 28 th and 30 th of June). They stopped working and locked the company. Of course, I was one of them ! Because I'm sure that this reorganization project is not good for the company. It's not good because all the knowledge that generation of Reynold's employees accumulated will be lost for everyone even Newell Rubbermaid. All the knowledge can't be wrote because it's shared between many people, so the knowledge is not what the people know, it is the links, the network they do each other. If the writing system division of Newell Rubbermaid wants to fight BIC pens, this division will need all abilities to win. If not, this division will lose the business competition against BIC. I'm sure that the leadership of Newell Rubbermaid doesn't want to drive this company to a defeat. Everybody here, in Valence, gave the best of himself, designing and manufacturing pens ; and everybody wants to continue.

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Monday, June 26, 2006

A petition.

Just few word to inform you about a petition against the Reynolds'factory closure. So, if you're against this closure, follow this link ! The petition text is, in english :

I am against the closing or the reorganization of the factory Reynolds de Valence. There's no proof that this factory is not competitive.

There will be a meeting, Tuesday June 27, 2006, tomorrow with all the employees to decide what we will have to do.

posted by DiogenePasCynique ; 7:36 AM. Permanent link

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Friday, June 23, 2006

What is the acceleration project ?

One of the main objectives of the Acceleration project, is to reduce by a third the number of production factories in the Newell Rubbermaid Group. Unfortunately the replacement of production of the targetted sites cannot be done instantaneously. There is a great risk that the rapid transfer of production to countries with low-cost workforces will result in stock shortages, a fall in quality, with a loss in market share at stake. Hasty decisions will cause the writing instrument section to lose its profitability (currently the best in the group). I fear that this will ultimately have a regrettable impact on the Newell Rubbermaid Group's stock
prices.

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Wednesday, June 21, 2006

First post

Hi, this blog is not a translation of Restructuration. It's only a way to comunicate with the Newell Rubbermaid'Shareholders. I'm one of the 30 000 employees of the company.

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