Leonardo, what will happen in Grottaglie, Foggia and Pomigliano d’Arco
What the Leonardo group has foreseen for the employees of the Grottaglie, Foggia and Pomigliano d'Arco plants, avoiding the use of the cig. Here are numbers and indiscretions
The Covid crisis has sent production down to Leonardo's Grottaglie, Foggia and Pomigliano d'Arco sites.
Leonardo's aerostructures division is suffering from the decline in production rates of the Boeing 787 and Atr programs. Even though the former Finmeccanica CEO, Alessandro Profumo, had recently declared that the aerostructures division "weighs less than 10% of our total turnover".
In fact, market analyzes predict that air traffic will return to 2019 (pre-Covid) levels no earlier than 2024.
The lower production of fuselages has already been reflected in the Leonardo plant in Grottaglie – where two sections of the carbon fiber fuselage of the Boeing 787 are built – through a collective closure plan that since last August has been foreseeing the production stop on a scheduled basis. Friday and Monday.
Until the eight-hour strike called by Fim, Fiom and Uilm last November 27 at the Grottaglie site to recall the top management of the former Finmeccanica on the decline in work.
But a "solidarity fund or solidarity bank is on the way: this is how the unions call it, which, in illustrating the mechanism, say that it would work with the provision of days off to avoid the application of the layoffs", as Il Sole 24 Ore reported yesterday. So far, the cig has never been applied since the Grottaglie plant has been in operation (and they are over ten years).
Although, on the sidelines of the meeting with the company last December 2, the unions had reported that they appreciated that the discussion was turning "towards a path aimed at avoiding social safety nets".
The Euromale drone project is also among the possible orders that would affect Leonardo's Taranto site.
All the details on the new products coming to the Leonardo plants in Grottaglie, Foggia and Pomigliano d'Arco.
SOLIDARITY FUND FOR LEONARDO EMPLOYEES COMING SOON
Therefore, as Il Sole 24 Ore writes, "a solidarity fund to overcome the crisis and the reduced work that, due to Covid, affects above all the aerostructures division and thus avoid the layoffs, which in one of the plants concerned, that of Grottaglie (Taranto), has never been used so far ”.
This is the proposal presented by the Leonardo group to the metalworking unions.
According to what the Confindustria newspaper reports, "the fund would be fueled by three major items: the residual 2020 holidays, which amounts to about 20 thousand hours, the holidays that coincide with the rest days that would no longer be paid, and are another 25 thousand hours, and the new amount of holidays for the staff of the group for 75 thousand hours. All this would be accompanied by the use of training for 250 hours per capita and an additional intervention by the company ".
“But the unions themselves specify that everything is still on paper”, Il Sole 24 Ore points out. "We need to understand, they explain, how everything will be organized, how the individual items will be managed and if there will perhaps be a group framework agreement that will set a possible minimum quota that Leonardo employees should make available to help colleagues from other sites in difficulty".
WHAT THE MANAGEMENT HAD SAID TO THE TRADE UNIONS AT THE END OF NOVEMBER
In fact, at the end of November, Leonardo's management had reported to the trade unions that the effects of the pandemic on the civil aeronautics sector heavily impact the relaunch plan of the aerostructures division, postponing the achievement of the financial sustainability objectives of the 2019-24 Plan by four years.
The decrease in customer demand is in fact reflected in the production volumes which decrease by more than 40% in 2021 and which only in 2025 are reported to values similar to those of 2019.
Specifically, the decrease in volumes is distributed unevenly among the plants, impacting to a greater extent in the Grottaglie plant due to the Boeing effect and the decline in sales of the B787 and in the Pomigliano plant due to the drop in ATR deliveries in the field. of the regional ones.
THE CRITICAL POINT IN GROTTAGLIE
It is precisely in Grottaglie, as we said, that the crisis is felt most. In fact, we have gone from a production, until some time ago, of 12 pairs of fuselage sections, the central and the central rear, to a lower one and which in the next year will drop to 6 pairs per month. In Grottaglie work, only directly, about 1300 people.
But next year for half of the plant's employees there will be no work. In 2021 the Grottaglie plant will be impacted by 152 days of production shutdown, which develop as many as 651 total unsaturated resources.
The pandemic crisis and the lower demand from the client Boeing have so far been managed in Grottaglie without resorting to the cig, but through a collective closure plan. This started last August and does not foresee work – on a scheduled basis – on Fridays and Mondays.
COLLECTIVE CLOSURE PLAN ALSO IN DECEMBER
As Agi reported at the beginning of December, the collective closure plan will also be applied this month, probably just before Christmas, but it remains to be seen how 2021 and 2022 will be managed. Given that the crisis will drag on and the top Leonardo hypothesized a gradual recovery in 2023 if not really, in 2024.
WHAT THE UNION EXPECTED
On the sidelines of the meeting with Leonardo's top management on 2 December, Fim, Fiom and Uilm explained that the reduction in production at the plant was communicated by the company.
The metalworking acronyms reported that they appreciated that the discussion was turning "towards a path aimed at avoiding social safety nets".
The trade unions also added that "they expected a further effort from Leonardo to prevent the full use of individual workers' institutions relating to 2021 through the choice of solidarity management tools for the company and not for workers, according to the global vision One Company ".
FORMER FINMECCANICA CONFIRMS INVESTMENTS IN THE AEROSTRUCTURE DIVISION
At the end of November, Leonardo management confirmed to the trade unions the investments over the plan period, to strengthen its position with the aerostructures division of leader in the sector, exploiting the reduction in volumes to propose itself to the recovery of the market with renewed plants and technologies / new and additional products.
The former Finmeccanica has in fact identified a center of excellence for light alloy fuselages and one-piece frame manufacturing in carboresine in the Pomigliano plant, an expansion through technological and organizational solutions of the Foggia site and a center of excellence in new materials to support the business diversification in the Grottaglie plant.
POSSIBLE PRODUCTION OF THE EUROMALE DRONE IN GROTTAGLIE
In this regard, during the meeting on 2 December the Leonardo group proposed the possibility of producing a drone in the Grottaglie plant . It would be the European program of the Male drone in which Germany, France, Italy and Spain participate with Airbus, Dassault, Leonardo and Indra present on the industrial side.
The new production of the drone would serve on the one hand to ease the decrease in work in Grottaglie of the 787 fuselages and on the other to position the plant on new orders and new projects.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/leonardo-che-cosa-succedera-a-grottaglie-foggia-e-pomigliano-darco/ on Thu, 10 Dec 2020 08:19:14 +0000.