Stellantis fires and prepares to pack up. A betrayal of Italy to its brands
As easily predictable, the final blow has arrived for the automotive industry in Italy. Stellantis has announced 2510 redundancies in its factories throughout Italy, thus carrying out another important cut in the staff employed in our country. In particular, in Turin, the holding company signed an agreement with the metalworking unions (excluding Fiom) for the incentivized voluntary exit of 1,520 workers employed in 21 group companies in the area, out of a pool of approximately 12,000 total employees.
A cold shower that came after the reassurances of recent days, when the CEO of the holding, Carlos Tavares, underlined: "We love Italy and we feel an ethical responsibility towards our employees who I want to thank for everything they are doing" . Words that would make you smile, if not make you angry.
“The comparisons carried out in the Mirafiori, Cassino and Pratola Serra plants saw the company announce 2,510 redundancies. Turin 1,560, Cassino 850 (of which 300 transferred to Pomigliano) and Pratola Serra 100 redundancies", declared Fiom, very critical of the corporate line taken by the group led by Tavares.
The agreement reached today adds to those of recent months, which came in the wake of a direction that Stellantis had already taken some time ago, deciding to invest less in Italy and in particular in Turin. The voluntary exits encouraged, specifically, will concern 733 employees considered too many in the Central Entities, 40 technicians and engineers from the Fiat Research Center, 22 Mopar spare parts workers, 10 workers from the Balocco track and 20 from safety. In short, people are fired almost everywhere,
There will then be 300 redundancies in the body shop, 89 in mechanics and 40 in the presses, where the objectives of incentivized redundancies have already been achieved with the previous agreement between the unions and the company. The news has also created divisions within the unions themselves. According to Fiom, these layoffs "will also weigh on companies in the component supply chain". Fim, which joined the agreement, is more cautious. “The numbers announced today are consistent with previous union agreements,” the union noted.
Stellantis uses sweet words to, frankly, make fun of Italians and their workers "once again on the centrality of Italy within its global activities" "the proof is the investments of several billion euros that have been made of recent in Italian activities for new products and production sites, including the Gigafactory in Termoli and the Stla Medium and Stla Large platforms in Melfi and Cassino, respectively". The global automotive industry, the company underlines, “is changing rapidly and Italy has a crucial role to play in this epochal transformation. The energy transition has led us to think differently than in the past if we wanted to continue to be competitive, and this has led us today to have to make the best use of capacity both in terms of assets and resources, minimizing the impacts related to the transformation and ensuring a solid future." In short, the fault lies with cynical and cheating fate and with consumers who do not understand the energy transition. Those fired will be happy to be sacrificed for the Company.
The unions protest, but they can't do anything because it's too late. “The actual decisions contradict CEO Tavares' entire story about the importance of Italy to Stellantis. The true reality is represented by a planned and dramatic disengagement of the multinational from our country", attacked Fiom.
The unions ask the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to summon the CEO of Stellantis. To do what? To pledge and donate billions that Stellantis' patently ineffective mechanism will destroy and merely prolong the suffering for a year or two?
The betrayal of Stellantis, FCA and FIAT is under the eyes of all Italian citizens, who have paid billions ( 7.6 to FIAT alone, excluding the Alfa Romeo gift and the one made then to FCA and only up to 2012), which, frankly, they would be authorized to no longer buy even a bicycle built by the Franco-American group. Instead, it would be right to encourage any other brand, even Chinese or Indian, that wanted to come and produce in Italy on a permanent basis.
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