Forty-four. Cursed figure in the warehouses of the Cooper Standardthe most populous of the Battipaglia industriesinactive since yesterday morning, day one of the indefinite strike proclaimed by the trade unions. Forty-four is the percentage of the drop in orders that the 500 workers found themselves facing in recent daysreturning from vacation. The details, the pieces to be produced on behalf of the vehicles of the Stellantis group, are always the same: gaskets of the Alfa Romeo Tonale and Stelviofrom the Fiat Panda and of the Jeep Renegade e Compasswith the unknown of the Duchydisputed between the Battipaglia plant and the one in Sremskain Serbia.
In the yesterday morningimmediately after the well-attended lightning meeting at the foot of the factory, the plant manager, Pietro Mancuso, called the trade unions. The representatives of Stellantiswho on Tuesday evening, together with the top management of Cooper, had been promptly warned of the drastic decision of the Battipaglia workers, want the products necessary to assemble the motor vehicles (few: the drop in orders, however physiological at the end of the summer, is the result of the decline in demand for vehicles) to be placed on the market. Finished gaskets are stored in the company warehouses: Stellantis trucks could arrive to pick them up and take them away. How the work to be done was taken away, relocated to the factories of theEast Europewhere labor costs less. «We appeal to Stellantis and Cooper – the words of the workers – because they prefer quality to savings».
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– 2024-09-05 12:43:18
