The Italian Union of Metalworkers (Uilm) expresses the need for an urgent meeting with the top management of Stellantis to obtain concrete answers to the requests of workers in the automotive sector. In particular, Uilm asks for clarity on the production programs for Italy, including investments and timing, and the complete implementation of the industrial plan for the country.
In the absence of satisfactory answers from Stellantis, Uilm has threatened to promote a national strike in the automotive sector, involving other trade unions. Stellantis is also asked to ensure decent working conditions in all factories, including suitable workstations for workers with reduced working capacity.
Francesco Guida (UilM)
The government is asked to take responsibility in ensuring competitive conditions for the automotive sector, especially during the transition to electric vehicles. “A poorly conceived and managed transition – is the summary of the request – could have devastating consequences for workers and for the related sectors”.
“We ask Stellantis – writes UilM – to complete and improve the industrial plan for Italy, assigning non-exclusively electric and widespread vehicles. THEIn all factories, conditions of liveability and decorum must also be guaranteed 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” concludes the union.
