The unions hope the Thursday hearing will allow them to stop this process

The elected representatives of the central enterprise Committee (CEC) of the credit of the North play their va-tout in the arms of iron they have hired a few months with the Société Générale. They hope to convince the Court of first instance or the Court of appeal of Paris of the need to suspend the implementation of the Convergence of their parent project at a hearing scheduled Thursday.

The main objective of this plan is to create an information system unique to three banking group networks: Société Générale, Crédit du Nord and Boursorama. The Bank of defence points out that this system is based on the credit du Nord, but the social partners in the subsidiary worried about losing their soul to term. "The other two networks will adopt our workstation ergonomics, but all computers, chains of financial and commercial flight mass treatment, will remain under the control of Société Générale, says Alain Bonnet, national steward CFDT to the credit of the North." Our strength lies in our ability to deliver tailor-made to our customers, but how to feed this proximity if we do ever our computer tool, with integrated into each bank business computer to translate the needs of the customers as quickly as possible in computer language "The governance of shared tools must respect the interests of everyone," he concludes.

According to the social partners, this principle is central, as if the credit of the North loses its specificity, it has more reason to be. "Our agencies are in direct competition with those of the General society, we must be sufficiently different and cost-effective so that they are not considered as costly duplicates", notes Cédric permanent, President of the economic commission of the CEC CFDT.

"The credit du Nord has a very bright future, our interest is therefore to give it the means to develop, said Jean-François Sammarcelli, Deputy General Manager of Société Générale." "Today, a generalist Bank of 2 million customers can bear the cost of a clean computer system and must seek maximum sharing", he concludes.

The elected representatives of the Bank staff estimate however had no sufficient guarantees on the longevity of its economic model. With the exception of the SNB - CGC Union, they had therefore raised in August a procedure for tort of interference. The tribunal de grande instance of Paris gave wrong mid-December in chambers, but the social partners have immediately appealed.

Too important issue

Unlike these, Société Générale view that this appeal does not prevent it to decline sharing program in its subsidiaries. A central Committee was therefore summoned February 3 North credit to be informed of the creation of a Directorate of information and optimization processes (Siop) systems. It is this entity which will drive Computing three banking networks of Société Générale. This made information, the Board of Directors of Northern credit can meet February 18 to endorse the decision.

The unions hope the Thursday hearing will allow them to stop this process. Must be that the judge's final decision is favourable and that it be made before February 3 date of EAC. It remains that a Union victory will not divert the Société Générale of his sharing of his three networks. The issue is too important to the banking group: he hopes to release his plan, 220 million euros in savings per year from 2015.