Stellantis also brakes on Mirafiori: layoffs
The redundancy fund at the Presse di Mirafiori plant starts, while the unions ask Stellantis for a shared industrial plan. What is happening in Italy to the group resulting from the merger between FCA and PSA
Even Presse di Mirafiori, after the Melfi plant, stops.
Stellantis, the fourth automotive group in the world, born from the merger between the Italian-American FCA and the French PSA, still uses layoffs. This time it does it for the Presse di Mirafiori factory in Turin. All the details.
INTEGRATION CASE FOR MIRAFIORI
The workers of the Presse di Mirafiori plant will cross their arms, due to layoffs from February 22 to March 5, as announced by Fiom-Cgil.
THE REASONS FOR THE CASH
In the Presse di Mirafiori plant, printed body parts are produced for various plants in Italy. The factory works for many different models. The stop, for the next few days, is due, explains Fiom-Cgil, according to Stellantis' statements, “to the reduction in requests from customer body shops”.
ALSO MELFI IN CASH INTEGRATION FOR A WEEK
The use of social safety nets is however not new for Stellantis, even though the company is very young. From 8 to 14 February the 7,174 workers of the factory in Melfi, in the province of Potenza , where the Jeep Compass and Renegade are produced, stopped.
THE CRITICISM OF THE TRADE UNIONS
They don't like unions. “We are again, after a few months, in the important use of layoffs”, say Edi Lazzi, provincial secretary of Fiom-Cgil and Ugo Bolognesi, manager of Mirafiori for Fiom-Cgil.
A NEW INDUSTRIAL PLAN IS NEEDED
But the heart of the problem is certainly not the layoffs: the unions are asking for a shared industrial plan.
“The 2018/2021 business plan, although we have always considered it insufficient, has essentially come to an end. Nothing is known about the new industrial plans of Stellantis and the news coming from the market, as shown by the case of the Presse, is not positive. It is urgent to call a table that involves the social partners and the institutions and that tackles the situation ”, say Lazzi and Bolognesi. “The transition towards sustainable mobility can be an opportunity and the news of a possible industrial settlement for a short supply chain of components for electric mobility, if they are real and concrete news, represent the right direction, as Fiom has been arguing for some time. However, a plan capable of planning the future is immediately needed, defending employment and promoting generational turnover. We need to quickly move from words to deeds ”.
THE NUMBERS OF STELLANTIS
What is certain is that the numbers of the car manufacturer do not make you rest assured. Stellantis, according to Corriere reports , registered “52,542 cars in Italy in January, 21.7% less than in the same month of 2019 when the two companies were still separated. The share is 39.2% compared to 43.1% ".
In particular, “FCA registrations are 30,660, down by 23.2% (share from 25.6 to 22.9%). Those of Psa 21,882, 19.6% less (share from 17.5 to 16.3%) ".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/stellantis-frena-anche-su-mirafiori-cassa-integrazione/ on Thu, 18 Feb 2021 14:57:54 +0000.