Published 1/24/2018 2:44:21 PM
ZARAGOZA / MADRID, 24 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The PSA Group, through the management of Opel Spain, has informed the representatives of the workers of its plant in Figueruelas (Zaragoza) that it has decided to halt the project of the new Corsa in this center and is looking for a new location for manufacturing of this vehicle.
Before this announcement, the company committee of Opel Spain has stated that it can not accept or share “the unilateral decision that has taken the direction, with respect to the negotiation in the plant of Figueruelas (Zaragoza) and the affection in the investments, with some serious consequences for the workforce and industry of Aragón “.
As a first step, the works council has convened this Thursday, January 25, all the workers of the morning and central shift to a concentration at the ‘hour of the sandwich’, at 9.35 am, to move to the address rejection and discomfort with the decision made, has indicated the committee’s president, Sara Martín.
“The management has transferred us the unilateral decision that they have taken, regarding the negotiation in the plant of Figueruelas and the affection in the investments, with serious consequences for the staff and the industry of Aragon”, the committee indicated in a press release .
“We can not share or accept this unilateral decision.” The decision taken unanimously in the works committee was to suspend the decision not to break negotiations in which the company only wants to discuss its proposals. conditions that we all know and that includes above all an industrial plan for the two lines and the three shifts “.
The committee has urged the company to “reconsider the decision adopted today and accept these conditions” that would allow them “to return to the negotiating table to try to reach an agreement agreement desired by all, to ensure investment and the future of the plant and that at the same time is compatible with decent working conditions for workers “.
Sara Martin said that “our proposals are honest and serious” and “we have never said that we broke the negotiation but it is suspended until the management does not accept the five points that we present, among which is an industrial plan that would be very beneficial for both parties. “
The decision of the PSA Group to paralyze the Corsa project in Figueruelas comes after the Opel Spain works council unanimously agreed to suspend the negotiations of the collective agreement it holds with the company earlier this week.
The agreement, which affects the workers of Opel Spain, its majority in the Zaragoza plant of Figueruelas, expired in 2017 and is the first that the firm faces after its purchase by the PSA Group. The negotiations began last October.