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Wide pan exterior of Airbus factory2. Mid of exterior of Airbus factory3. Sign outside factory reading (French): \"Airbus, Meaulte factory\"4. Various of Airbus workers blocking the entrance of the factory compound5....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eMeaulte, France\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide pan exterior of Airbus factory\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid of exterior of Airbus factory\u003cbr/\u003e3. Sign outside factory reading (French): \"Airbus, Meaulte factory\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Various of Airbus workers blocking the entrance of the factory compound\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (French) Francois, Airbus worker who has worked in the Meaulte factory for the last 30 years:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Thirty years of effort to maybe be swept away in a few seconds, and all that for a few shareholders who never have enough.\" \u003cbr/\u003e6. Airbus workers waiting inside factory compound\u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid of workers at entrance with banner reading (French): \"Withdrawal of Power8. No to the selling of Meaulte\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Various of people distributing leaflets to workers\u003cbr/\u003e9. Pan down from Airbus flag to Airbus sign\u003cbr/\u003e10. Various of workers walking inside Airbus compound\u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid of journalists\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (French) Jean-Christophe Lestienne, Airbus worker:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Louis Gallois (Airbus CEO) keeps on talking on the TV screens that have been set up inside. Workers are not at all satisfied. They want to know the truth. They do not want to be told lies. Louis Gallois wants to meet again with the trade unions in two weeks. People are fed up. We have been living like that, not knowing what will happen, for the last two months. Before we were like top of the class and now we are considered dunces. People have made enough efforts. Now they want the truth.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Various of workers walking inside Airbus compound\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (French) Sebastien Clein, Airbus worker and union representative:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are being told that, in order to keep our jobs, they must find investors. But at the moment no one can tell us who, when, how. So we can not give them a carte blanche without having more information.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide of workers walking inside Airbus compound\u003cbr/\u003eBerlin, Germany    \u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jose Manuel Barroso, European Commission President\u003cbr/\u003e''Look this is a question for the management of the company.  Of course we are following that with interest.  I hope a fair solution is found for the workers, but this is a management issue for the company\u003cbr/\u003eQ: Do you think there has been too much politics in this decision?\u003cbr/\u003e''I personally believe that not always in the past there were management criteria the first in consideration. Sometimes there was some kind of politicisation and if this company is to be a real success, they need to have clear business decisions.''\u003cbr/\u003e17. European Commission President and other officials walk down stairs \u003cbr/\u003eAirbus, steadily losing its market lead to Boeing Co., unveiled drastic plans Wednesday to follow in its U.S. rival's footsteps by cutting thousands of jobs, selling off manufacturing sites and outsourcing more work to external suppliers.\u003cbr/\u003eStrikes and protests greeted the European planemaker's long-awaited announcement that it intends to shed 10,000 staff and sell, close or spin off six plants, as it struggles to survive the crippling fallout from a two-year delay to its A380 superjumbo and the weaker U.S. Dollar.\u003cbr/\u003eAirbus will sell off or shut down its French Saint-Nazaire-Ville plant and two German sites - Varel and Laupheim - as the company increasingly outsources \"non-core\" parts, Airbus Chief Executive Officer Louis Gallois said. Together, the three facilities currently employ over 3,000 workers.\u003cbr/\u003eWorkers at Airbus' factory in Meaulte in northern France blocked production on Wednesday ahead and after the plan was announced. \u003cbr/\u003eThe action was not an organised strike and it was not immediately clear how many of the plant's 1,300 workers took part.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Louis Gallois wants to meet again with the trade unions in two weeks. People are fed up. We have been living like that, not knowing what will happen, for the last two months. Before we were like top of the class and now we are considered dunces,\" said one Airbus worker, Jean-Christophe Lestienne.\u003cbr/\u003eGallois is also seeking partners to back a belated push into carbon-fiber composite technologies by investing in three other Airbus sites that produce fuselage and wing parts: Meaulte in northern France, Nordenham in Germany and Filton in Britain.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are being told that, in order to keep our jobs, they must find investors. But at the moment no one can tell us who, when, how. So we can not give them a carte blanche without having more information,\" said Airbus worker and union representative, Sebastien Clein.\u003cbr/\u003eOver four years, Airbus said it plans to shed 4,300 jobs in France, 3,700 in Germany, 1,600 in Britain and 400 in Spain - with roughly half the cuts coming from its 57,000-strong Airbus work force and the rest from subcontractors, who currently employ a further 30,000 staff.\u003cbr/\u003eThe company said it will seek to avoid layoffs by using voluntary schemes such as early retirement, but made no promises.\u003cbr/\u003eThe shake-up announced Wednesday echoed changes at Boeing from late 2001, when the Chicago-based company began the long process of slashing 40,000 jobs and outsourcing production in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks.\u003cbr/\u003eBut European labour laws could make the challenge tougher for Airbus, analysts say.\u003cbr/\u003eAirbus has been badly hit by the weakness of the US dollar, the currency in which its planes are priced, and is expected to shift more of its supplier costs and contract work to dollar-linked economies as part of the restructuring effort.\u003cbr/\u003eIt also has to fund development of the A350, its 15.3 (b) billion US dollar answer to the runaway success of US rival Boeing Co.'s 787 in the lucrative market for long-range, mid-sized planes.\u003cbr/\u003eFinal assembly of the A350 will be based exclusively in France, Gallois said, instead of being split between Germany and France as programmes traditionally have been.\u003cbr/\u003eIn return, an additional A320 final assembly line will be opened in Germany and a future revamp of the single-aisle plane will be assembled in Hamburg.\u003cbr/\u003eGallois was forced to postpone the restructuring announcement, originally scheduled last week, and propose changes to the plan after the main EADS shareholders failed to agree on the distribution of job cuts and new technologies between France and Germany at a February 18 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