Avio Aero, what happens to Rivalta?
Avio Aero reported a 30% drop in production in 2021. 235 redundancies out of 2200 employees at the Rivalta (Turin) plant at risk
Covid effect on the Turin plant of Avio Aero (GE Aviation group).
The company led by Riccardo Procacci has communicated to the unions Uilm, Fiom and Fim that in 2021 there will be a decrease in production for the Rivalta plant (which produces aeronautical transmissions) of about 30% compared to 2019.
Avio Aero attributed the drop in work to the “significant contraction in air traffic due to the pandemic”, which according to the company's calculations will not return to pre-crisis levels before 2023, although a first recovery is expected in 2022.
The drop will push the hours worked from over one million in 2019 to 700,000 in 2021.
But jobs are also at risk. The company has in fact foreseen a potential redundancy of 235 workers out of the total 2,200 in the three-year period.
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AVIO AERO'S PERSPECTIVES FOR THE TURIN PLANT
In the meeting on 27 April with the trade unions, the company announced that it expects a production decrease of about 30% for the Rivalta plant in the course of 2021 compared to the recent past. In particular, with over 1 million working hours in the final balance in 2019, the company expects to use approximately 700,000 hours by 2021.
“On the basis of the current forecasts of production volumes, the company has reconfirmed the desaturation of the direct production staff, as well as that (not yet determined) of the indirect structures”, underlined on Start Guglielmo Gambardella, national Uilm coordinator of the sector. “As regards the Pomigliano D'Arco and Brindisi plants, the declared surpluses will be reabsorbed during the period 2021-2023, with the need for new additions, while for the Borgaretto site they will be reduced to a dozen in the same period. The Rivalta plant, the largest with over 2000 employees, would instead show a more unbalanced employment situation than the other sites ".
235 REDUNDANCES
Precisely in Rivalta, in the three-year period, the company envisaged a redundancy potential of 235 workers out of about 2,200 total employees.
TRADE UNIONS ASK FOR COMPARISON ON RIVALTA AND BORGARETTO PLANTS
Guglielmo Gambardella and Aniello Montella, AvioAero manager of Uilm of Turin, said "that they had asked the company to start a comparison on the Rivalta and Borgaretto plants to verify the declared surpluses and possibly identify tools with less impact on employment, such as accompaniment to retirement ". “We hope that the forecasts are not confirmed and that the resumption of air traffic will bring the Turin plants back to normal. The Avio Aero crisis must not be paid for by the workers ”, added the trade unionists.
“We hope that we can start quickly with the training courses, in order to balance the wage loss of the cig” underlined Luigi Villani, territorial for Uglm with GeAvio delegation for Turin.
WHAT AVIO AERO DOES
Avio Aero is a GE Aviation company that operates in the design, production and maintenance of components and systems for civil and military aeronautics. Center of excellence for the entire General Electric group in the field of mechanical transmissions and low pressure turbines. The company has its headquarters in Italy in Rivalta with factories in Turin, Pomigliano d'Arco (Naples) and Brindisi.
Worldwide it has more than 4,700 employees (of which about 4000 in Italy) and production plants in Poland, Brazil and China.
THE IMPORTANCE OF EUROPEAN PROGRAMS FOR POST-COVID RECOVERY
In the summary presented by Avio Aero last year with the strategic lines with which to face the transition phase up to the resumption of activities at pre-Covid levels, there is that of becoming a reference "motorist" supplier for the European Defense starting from Euromale and Tempest programs . In fact, we recall that the levels of activity for the military sector represent approximately one third of the turnover for Ge Avio Aero.
Precisely for this reason, CEO Procacci recalled how fundamental the government's support is in European defense programs, during a hearing in the House last month.
Procacci underlined the importance of “government support in national and international tenders and in collaboration programs in which Italy participates”. "A country model – underlined Procacci – well used by our competitors". "The investment in the Tempest is existential for the entire industry, not only military but also civilian," he highlighted Procacci. Same thing goes for the other Eurodrone European cooperation program.
The selection for the engine for the European Male drone will concern the Catalyst (proposed by Avio, a subsidiary of GE) and the Ardiden TP3 (Safran Helicopter Engines). “A joint and shared action to support the choice of the Catalyst in the Euromale program would be coherent from the point of view of the country system action”, underlined the CEO of Avio Aero.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/avio-aero-cosa-succede-a-rivalta/ on Mon, 03 May 2021 04:40:19 +0000.