TERMOLI. Stellantis: urgent institutional meeting with company top management; otherwise we will propose a national strike in the automotive sector.
Uilm expresses the need for an urgent convening of an institutional meeting to obtain the answers that workers have been waiting for for too long. We need to give a positive outcome to that automotive table that the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy has opened but which has not yet given any response; company leaders must provide complete clarity on the production programs for our country, indicating investments and timing. Failing this, we will take all the initiatives that a determined and responsible union must implement to make the workers’ voices heard, proposing the national strike in the automotive sector to the trade union organizations with which we have already mobilized together.
We ask Stellantis to complete and improve the industrial plan for Italy, assigning non-exclusively electric and widespread vehicles. Furthermore, conditions of liveability and decorum must be guaranteed in all factories and suitable workstations must be provided for workers with reduced working capacity. Stellantis must choose whether to confirm or deny that principle of participation on which the CCSL itself was founded.
We ask the Government for responsibility in guaranteeing competitive conditions for the automotive sector which otherwise will be devastated by a poorly conceived and poorly managed transition to electric. It is not only the workers of Stellantis who suffer but also those of the components and services industries, towards whom both social responsibility on the part of Stellantis and concrete instruments of protection on the part of a Government which has promised to intervene several times, but which so far he hasn’t done anything. Even the arrival of a possible second producer could only be positive if it were added to a consolidation and relaunch of Stellantis and certainly not if it arrived as a total or partial replacement, as the Government itself seems to suggest. In short, the divorce between Italy and Stellantis must be averted, which the Government has threatened several times and which would evidently be a disaster for the 40,000 direct workers and tens of thousands of related industries.
Government and Stellantis must assume their responsibilities in the interests of workers and the national economy.
