“A further mockery for Turin and Piedmont – continues Chiarle – that would not be able to retain the only car series manufacturer in the territory, in addition to FCA. For years, the FIM has asked that the institutions and the policy take charge of a project in support of the electrical supply chain which includes other companies besides Blue Car and which risk productive repercussions. The only reaction was the Giunta Fassino who entrusted car sharing to Blue Car cars “.
“The company has work until the end of the year, given our information, these days we will discuss it in the assembly with the workers – conclude Film – but we consider urgent the involvement of the politics and the regional institutions so as not to waste this heritage and we will also ask to Pininfarina, who is still the owner of the plant, to take on the job future of the site by re-employing the workers “.
The fears expressed by Alberto Mancino, secretary of Uilm Canavese are of the same tenor. “Last Friday a meeting was held in the company between the French managers of the Bluecar, the local company representatives and the Trade Union Organizations and the RSU of the Establishment. The representatives of the French company have communicated that they do not yet have an official answer on the continuation or not for the next 3 years of their presence on the Bairo website, they announced that when they make an official decision they will come to communicate it “. This is not enough, however, to reassure the minds: “Our feeling is not positive but we await official communications. The only thing certain is that the workers are in” detachment “from Pininfarina and if the rent does not continue the workers will return to Pininfarina which, we recall, has set up an ad hoc company (Automobili Pininfarina) to initially produce the Pininfarina Battista, the fastest and most luxurious electric hypercar “. “We will not accept – concludes Mancino – neither redundancies nor employment problems, we will ask Pininfarina to use workers and factory to produce electric cars”.
And from Fiom, the secretary of Turin and province Edi Lazzi expresses his concern about a fact that, “if confirmed, he will find our opposition. But above all it would represent a bad signal for the whole automotive world of the territory”. “It is a small but significant case of a lack of perspectives that also call into question Fca, given that it is now clear to everyone that the electric 500 cannot be enough”.
Pininfarina also intervened on the question with an official note, which reiterates how “the lease of a business unit with the Bolloré Group, concerning the Bairo plant, ends naturally on December 31, 2022”. And the company from Cambiano also points out that “the contract can be terminated early three years before its expiry. At the moment no formal communication on the matter has taken place, it being understood that the deadline for the cancellation will be June 30, 2019”.