The incentives to leave the Stellantis factories between Turin and Grugliasco will reach 800, with union agreements to anticipate retirement or with expansion contracts that provide for a new hiring every three exits. The Italian-French group therefore takes another step in the direction of the rationalization of costs desired and announced by the CEO Carlos Tavares a few months ago, a few days after the merger between FCA and PSA. For 260 employees, a hundred in Grugliasco and 160 at the Mirafiori bodyworks, the trade union agreement is already closed. For another 550 the discussion is still in progress but the road is drawn.
The interventions concern not only the vehicle assembly poles – Grugliasco and the Mirafiori Bodyworks – but also the Central Authorities of Mirafiori, with about 350 employees involved for which an agreement should be reached on expansion contracts, with the contextual recruitment of a hundred people, the Mechanics (80 employees), the Presses (50 employees).
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The first to sound the alarm were the managers of Fiom in Turin who in a press release spoke of the downsizing of Turin workers in the Group. Then came the words of Rocco Palombella, general secretary of Uilm, who participated in the provincial congress of the UIL in Turin in view of the strike called by metalworkers to protest against the release of layoffs. “If the French believe that factories or jobs can be sacrificed in Italy, we are not there,” Palombella stressed.
“It is as if Stellantis had suddenly closed a medium-sized factory in an area that in recent years has only seen business terminations and job losses” underlined Edi Lazzi, general secretary of Fiom-Cgil in Turin, and Ugo Bolognesi, head of Mirafiori. These are incentivized redundancies aimed at accompanying retirement and agreements signed by all the trade unions, “but the fact remains that we are facing the loss of further jobs” underlines Fiom, drawing a parallel with what has been done in Germany when PSA acquired Opel and cut a third of the jobs.
Palombella for his part underlines a further problem. “After the merger they said that there will be no closures, but we see worrying effects, such as the internalization process which offloads the problem on workers who remain outside. There has been an acceleration that is not governed. We need to keep in mind what our factories are producing at the moment and the change in technology creates problems both for processing and for components »added Palombella.