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France, Nokia said on Wednesday it will cut only 400 jobs, but
will also create 500 posts in research and development, in line
with a promise to the French government last year when it was
negotiating the Alcatel deal.
"The pledges made by Nokia when it bought Alcatel-Lucent have
been kept," said Frédéric Aussedat, a representative of the
CFE-CGC union in France.
Nokia declined to give a total figure for global job cuts. The
company employs about 6,850 people in Finland, 4,800 in Germany,
4,200 in France and around 104,000 around the world.
"This (1,300) is a terrible figure, we have rather difficult
employment situation in the sector to begin with," Pertti
Porokari, chairman of the Union of Professional Engineers in
Finland, said. "Seems that Finnish workers have lost this match
(against the French)."
Nokia took control of Franco-American Alcatel-Lucent in January
following its 15.6 billion euro ($17.7 billion) all-share offer,
intended to help it compete with Sweden's Ericsson and China's
Huawei [HWT.UL] in a market where limited growth and tough
competition are pressuring prices.
Nokia is seeking 900 million euros billion of operating cost
synergies from the Alcatel deal by 2018.
(Reporting by Jussi Rosendahl in Helsinki and Gwenaelle Barzic
in Paris; additional reporting by Frankfurt Newsroom; editing by
Mark Potter)
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