Giorgia Meloni invokes the CDP in Stellantis (FCA)
What future for Stellantis? Here are the concerns and hopes of the Brothers of Italy, the party chaired by Giorgia Meloni, on the former FCA plants in Italy.
The departure of Stellantis has the handbrake on, at least for the productions concerning the boot. From Melfi to Mirafiori, the new auto group, born from the merger of FCA and PSA, has planned layoffs.
This departure worries the trade unions, who wonder if behind this inactivity there is the desire for a restructuring of production, and also worries the Brothers of Italy, which has always been doubtful about the merger and still hopes for state intervention. Intervention also asking about Iveco.
Doubts and hopes will be discussed tomorrow at “Fiat farewell? Even the car needs a strategic state ”, a national meeting. All the details.
THE FACTS
Let's start with the facts. Stellantis extended the layoffs for the workers of the Melfi plant until May 2, after 17 consecutive weeks in which 1000 employees had to cross their arms.
Redundancy fund also for Mirafiori, where the workers blocked production from February 22 to March 5, due to a drop in requests from customer body shops.
THE FEAR OF TRADE UNIONS
The use of the Cig worries, not a little, the unions, that Fim, Uilm, Fismic, Uglm and Aqcf fear that the cash does not depend only on the "fallout of the pandemic on the car market and on the supply of components (semiconductors)", but from possible more serious problems that seem to be a “prelude to structural interventions, in the organization of the plant and in the supply system of the related industries, as already rumored. We fear that it is a real downsizing strategy of the Stellantis plant in Melfi ”.
THE MEETING OF BROTHERS OF ITALY
So what future for Stellantis in Italy? Hard to say.
But to present doubts and fears about what will be, it is also Brother of Italy who for tomorrow, March 30, at 11.00, organized a national meeting entitled “Fiat farewell? A strategic state is also needed on the car ”. During the event, connections from the cities where the company's main plants are located: Turin, Cassino, Melfi, Pomigliano, Modena and with an emblematic testimony from Termini Imerese.
The meeting "will be attended by parliamentarians, regional councilors and mayors, in comparison with the local production realities, representatives of all trade union organizations and business associations", explains a note.
THE WISHES OF GIORGIA MELONI'S PARTY
In addition to doubts, the party led by Giorgia Meloni would like to stimulate a reaction from the government, from Cassa Depositi e Prestiti in particular.
To introduce the works, writes Agi , will be the senator of Fratelli d'Italia, Adolfo Urso, head of the Business Department and vice president of Copasir, according to which "it is necessary that the government act to protect the factories, production and employment in Italy also in the face of the statements of the CEO of Stellantis which seem to foreshadow worrying scenarios ".
MELONS INVOKES CDP
“We will present a project that provides for the preparation of a national plan for the automotive sector and the participation of Cdp in the shareholding of the new company on a par with the French public share. In fact, it is now clear that it was not at all a joint merger between FCA and PSA but a sale that prefigures a French governance, whose public shareholder has, moreover, increased its stake after the merger, contrary to what previously affirmed ”, concludes Adolfo Urso.
MELONS: ALWAYS AGAINST FCA-PSA MERGER
That Giorgia Meloni, leader of brothers of Italy had never looked favorably on the merger is no mystery, however. After the marriage (economic, of course) took place, Meloni wrote in a post on Facebook: “The French also took Fiat. There is no merger between FCA and Peugeot, but a full-blown acquisition: now it's official. In the indifference of the latest governments and in the silence of the big media, the systematic and scientific sale of our production system continues ”.
THE MELONI PARTY ASKS FOR INTERVENTION ON IVECO
And Giorgia Meloni, with the Brothers of Italy, would like to avoid that Iveco, of the CNH group, also ends up in foreign hands. The party, again through Adolfo Urso, presented an urgent question on January 26, in which it invoked the golden power to block the sale of the Italian company to the Chinese Faw.
The rest of the center-right seems to have joined this invocation, with Lega and Forza Italia "We are pleased that 40 days after our timely denunciation, the whole center-right joins our request to place the 'golden power' on the hypothesis of Iveco sales to China to protect Italian work ”, Giorgia Meloni said in recent days . "On this with FdI we had already presented an urgent question to the Senate on January 26 and now, finally, before the government with the declaration of Minister Giorgetti and the Lega yesterday, and Forza Italia today, they give us reason by also taking sides in defense of production and Italian work. The question asked the executive to 'use the golden power to protect such an important strategic asset also for the industrial chain already severely tested by the sale of FCA to Peugeot' and to 'arrange for the intervention of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti where CNH he intended in any case to proceed with the sale of the Iveco group ', concludes Meloni.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/giorgia-meloni-invoca-la-cdp-in-stellantis/ on Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:46:46 +0000.