Turin is a candidate to host the Stellantis battery gigafactory that the group is expected to place in Europe by the end of the year. The Turin City Council unanimously approved an agenda for the support and protection of the automotive sector. In reiterating the need to harmonize the objectives of the PNRR with regard to green cars, the Red Room hopes for an active role of the State on investments and safeguarding employment in the sector and proposes the Piedmontese capital to host the Stellantis battery gigafactory.
The candidacy, explains the agenda, could make use of the existing scientific skills and professionalism as well as the vocation of the territory, from universities to businesses and workers. The City Council also expressed its willingness to implement a city energy plan through the implementation of photovoltaics and to design the infrastructure of the territory with charging stations for mobility with electric vehicles and to start a consultation for a different use of the areas of Mirafiori. which could host the gigafactory. A green reconversion of the historic Turin factory.
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Meanwhile, on the production front of Stellantis, the layoffs at the Melfi plant will continue until June 27th. The Cassa involves between a thousand and 1,500 employees on the approximately 7 thousand of the factory in rotation and for the month of June, as pointed out by Marco Lomio of Uilm Basilicata, “11-12 days of collective stops for the production lines of the Jeep Renegade and the Fiat 500X, which are worth about 60% of the production of the plant, while the production of the Jeep Compass and of the hybrid models produced in the factory continues as foreseen by the layoffs ».
A situation which, as stated in a joint note by the Fim, Uilm, Fismic, Uglm and Aqcf trade unions reflects the “persistence of the market crisis and above all the lack of semi-conductors that is heavily penalizing the entire automotive sector”, in note it is also emphasized that “for the month of June, also thanks to the pressure made by the union, the timetable of the stops was reshaped which, unlike May, provides for a more equitable distribution on all shifts collectively and furthermore the single stops will be exclusively on the first shift ». This, the trade unions explain, “allows us to better safeguard the wages of workers, as well as for the accruals we have used par, still available to the company, on the Jeep Renegade and 500x lines that allow us to accrue the holiday of 2 June to purposes of the overall calculation of the days worked “.