Stellantis anticipates the industrial plan for the Melfi plant, where four new multi-brand electric models will be produced starting from 2024 with an organizational revolution that provides for a production ‘superline’. The company excludes structural redundancies and explains that no decision has yet been made on the location of the group’s third battery factory. These are the main indications that come from the meeting convened by the Minister of Economic Development, Giancarlo Giorgetti, with the company and trade unions. Also present were the Minister of Labor, Andrea Orlando and Deputy Minister Gilberto Pichetto “The company speaks of” a strong positive sign of commitment in Italy “and of” a productive and constructive dialogue “.
“Stellantis – he explains – is working with determination and speed to anticipate and support the energy transition of all its Italian industrial sites with the aim of guaranteeing their sustainability by improving performance and making the country play a strategic role among the main markets European domestic staff of the Group “. Giorgetti agrees, defining the challenge announced by Stellantis to achieve market leadership, “shared by the government and the social partners”, as “demanding”.
“The government – says the minister – must understand how to manage this transition phase in which some supply chains will be privileged and others put at risk. It is important that there are guarantees on employment and that there are no nasty surprises. We are in a very delicate moment. , the hope is that the discussion will continue in a positive, transparent and constructive atmosphere “. Pichetto also speaks of “a positive climate” and stresses that “the presence of the Gigafactory in Italy is a fundamental aspect for the government”.
The unions are satisfied with the start of the confrontation, but ask for guarantees for all the Italian plants and for employment. “We ask for precise guarantees for all Italian workers. We want a great deal with Stellantis, which explicitly excludes the possibility of closures and layoffs, which supports the income of workers and which gives production missions to all assembly and engine plants, to numerous research bodies and staff “, say Rocco Palombella, general secretary of Uilm, and the national secretary Gianluca Ficco.
“We will not accept unilateral decisions on redundancies, we will make a timely verification of the consistency of the company’s declarations. We reiterated the need to open a discussion table at national level”, affirm the general secretary of the Fim Cisl Roberto Benaglia and the national secretary Ferdinando ULiano . Francesca Re David, general secretary of Fiom and Michele De Palma, head of Auto of Fiom, ask for “a national framework agreement with the participation of workers that has at the center an industrial plan that safeguards installed capacity and guarantees social stability and continuity. employment for the next 5 years “. For Giorgio Airaudo, general secretary of Fiom Piemonte “it would be better to have an overall picture of the company’s commitment for all the Italian plants. In particular, Turin needs more volumes and the Mirafiori headquarters of the battery factory”.