2,500 redundancies from Mirafiori to Cassino – Il Tempo

The feeling is that the dismantling has begun. And that the decidedly ambiguous and vague words of Carlos Tavares, the big boss of Stellantis, are nothing more than a kind of subliminal message to the government: the retreat of the car manufacturer, the only one left to produce in Italy with an Italian brand, Fiat, it has begun. The clues are all there, the evidence is not. Not yet, at least. The certainty is that the car manufacturer with a French center of gravity and registered office in the Netherlands still cuts in Italy. Over 2,500 redundancies, destined to increase what the company will decide on the Pomigliano d’Arco and Melfi plants. In other words, a plan to shut down work, as Fiom defined it, relaunching the appeal to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to summon CEO Tavares. At the moment, in fact, there are certain 1,560 departures from Mirafiori, equal to over 10% of the employees, 850 from Cassino of which 300 are moving to Pomigliano and 100 from Pratola Serra. Certainly, Mirafiori is now fully weakened. Of course, everything is part of the agreement for voluntary exits signed by the company and the unions, with the exception of the CGIL metalworkers. But in the crudeness of the numbers, some questions must be asked. The unions are alarmed and it couldn’t be otherwise. «The figures requested by the company in Turin are high and this must make us reflect on the fact that the situation is increasingly dramatic, it is urgent to accelerate the discussion with Stellantis and institutions to create a real relaunch project for Mirafiori», states Luigi Paone, general secretary Uilm Turin. Fiom’s version is even more dramatic. «The Prime Minister summon Tavares before it is too late.

These redundancies will also have a serious impact on companies in the components supply chain. The union agreement on incentivized exits in Stellantis, which was not signed by Fiom, is a boulder on the plan of meetings called by Minister Adolfo Urso of Mimit with the unions, the Regions and the companies”, say Michele De Palma, general secretary Fiom-Cgil and Samuele Lodi, Fiom-Cgil national secretary and mobility sector manager. «The situation in the Stellantis factories in Italy is clearly worsening. Furthermore, it seems that Leapmotor, a Chinese group, has decided to allocate the production of the electric city car to the Stellantis plant in Poland and not to Turin”, explain De Palma and Lodi. And this is also not good news.

Yet Italy continues to remain central for the company, as a Stellantis spokesperson said. «The agreements currently being created with the trade union organizations in Turin and in other Italian areas fall within the path defined in the framework agreement signed last Friday with the national trade union organizations that signed the Specific Collective Work Agreement. The global automotive industry is changing rapidly and Italy has a crucial role to play through this epochal transformation.”