MILANO – Stellantis has signed a framework agreement with the national trade union organizations signatories of the specific collective labor agreement (Ccsl), which defines the methods of identification and the economic treatments provided for workers interested in the termination of their employment relationship because they are close to meeting the requirements to take advantage of a pension or who intend to undertake new professional paths. The agreement was not signed by Fiom, specify Samuele Lodi, national secretary and head of the mobility sector, and Maurizio Oreggia, national automotive coordinator for Fiom-Cgil. “The emptying of the Stellantis factories continues, – they comment – a bad sign if we consider that these exits are not compensated by the hiring of young people, who would provide an important prospect for the future”.
A spokesperson for Stellantis Italia explains that the initiative is part of the initiatives implemented by the auto group to address the effects of the ongoing energy and technological transition process and which is affecting the automotive sector in all its aspects (OEMs and suppliers in throughout Europe), including employment ones, and is the natural continuation of previous agreements already signed by the company in recent years.
“The objective of the agreement, which is based exclusively on the adhesion of the workers concerned, is to define the reference framework for the agreements that will be implemented in the coming weeks in the various company entities aimed at adapting employment levels to changes in processes companies by proposing shared solutions to workers”, explains the spokesperson, underlining that “the global automotive industry is changing rapidly and Italy has a crucial role to play through this epochal transformation”.
The company, explains the spokesperson, once again reiterates the centrality of Italy within its global activities and the demonstration is the investments of several billion euros that have recently been made in Italian activities for new products and production sites, including the Termoli gigafactory and the Stla medium and Stla large platforms in Melfi and Cassino respectively. In Turin, in particular, with approximately 240 million in investments excluding those for manufacturing, the Battery technology center, the plant for the production of the electrified Edct gearbox, the Green campus and the Sustainera circular economy hub as part of the Mirafiori Automotive Park 2030 plan.
Projects which, however, do not convince the metalworkers of the CGIL. Lodi and Oreggia point out that this is “another procedure of incentivized exodus precisely during the discussion with the Mimit within the automotive table, strongly desired by Fiom-Cgil to address the issue of an entire sector which, in the difficulties determined by the transition to electric, is going through a profound crisis, in particular due to the strategic choices of Stellantis in our country, characterized by poor investments, uncertainties for the future of production, and a continuous reduction of the workforce through a huge use of resources economic, obtained directly from the workers, many of whom are on redundancy pay or are traveling hundreds of kilometres”.
Fiom recalls the 8-hour strike “of all trade unions” on 12 April in Turin “for the entire automotive sector, to demand the right to have an industrial future, work and dignity in work. In recent weeks we have jointly asked the Prime Minister to convene a meeting at Palazzo Chigi with the CEO of Stellantis, Tavares. The future is not built with incentives for exodus, but rather with discussion to guarantee factories, new models, research and development and regeneration of employment”.
400 layoffs in software and engineering divisions in the US
Meanwhile, the company – reported the Wall Street Journal – is laying off around 400 employees in the United States, mainly in the software and engineering divisions. Stellantis, the newspaper reports, then confirmed in a note that it plans to reduce its engineering, technology and software organizations by about 2% in the United States. In all, this figure equates to around 400 employees, according to internal documents seen by the newspaper.
Leapmotor will produce in Tychy and not in Mirafiori
However, the possibility that the Chinese one vanishes Leapmotor can come and produce its cars in the Mirafiori plant. The company will build the cars at its Tychy plant in Poland, Reuters reported. Production of Leapmotor’s T03 small EV car could begin by the end of June, using the semi-knocked down (SKD) technique that involves turning partially assembled kits into finished vehicles, one of the people the agency spoke to said.
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– 2024-05-01 03:21:59
