New redundancy fund, in the FCA world. The suspension of work activities on 10th, 17th and 24th May has been made official with the redundancy fund’s intervention with the motivation of the temporary contraction of activities for 5,862 workers in Central Structures (5,094 are employed), for the 538 workers and employees of the purchasing entity and for the 71 workers and workers of I-Fast Container Logistics. Redundancy fund also for 504 workers of C.R.F. (the research center of Orbassano). A total of 6975 people will be suspended.
“Punctual as a Swiss watch comes the monthly layoff communication for the technical, administrative and logistics areas of Fiat Chrysler in Turin – comments Edi Lazzi, provincial secretary of Fiom Cgil -. The situation becomes more complicated every day. The productive areas work with a single shift and a few days a month. The areas of management, planning and development are invested monthly by the temporary contraction of work activities. Turin and Piedmont, need to focus attention on the prospects of the most important industrial sector still in existence, the car sector, all the more so in light of the news that Fiat Chrysler will pay Tesla hundreds of millions of euros to count on own fleet its vehicles, thus trying to avoid the EU fines on emissions “.
“This is another bad signal that makes the strong delay that FCA has on the production of low environmental impact cars plastically emerge – adds Gianni Mannori, head of the Fca CGIL of the FCA Central Structures of the Turin area – but cars that represent future and the prospect of car manufacturers’ survival in the world market “.