For its part, the President of the Government of Navarra, María Chivite, has insisted that the executive will offer “investment assistance”, but reiterated that it is the multinational that will decide “whether it takes on these tasks or outsources them”.
The address of Volkswagen Navarre the works council of the plant informed this Thursday that “there is no news” regarding the battery cell assembly plant that the unions want to be located within the Pamplona plant’s facilities. The chairman of the committee, Alfredo Moralesrecalled that the company’s management reported a week ago that the battery assembly plant was “a necessary project, attractive to Volkswagen Navarra, but it was a project that currently lacked funding”.
For this reason, “given the news that has occurred in recent hours,” he said, a meeting has been held with the management of the factory in which the unions have asked if there is any news to inform the staff “whether even to celebrate.” The management, he added, “confirmed to us that there has been no change, that everything remains the same, that it continues to confirm that it is a very necessary project for our plant, but that it still has no funding”.
In a media appearance for the Pamplona factory, Morales stressed that in this matter “we are playing with very sensitive issues”, with industrial projects that affect people, and therefore “this type of matter should be treated with the seriousness that today management is trying to from Volkswagen Navarra it is not”.
Volkswagen Navarra management “should have made a public statement in case something changed, because they had to be aware of the particular sensitivity that exists on this issue at the moment,” said Morales, who released a statement passed. “critical expressions” of “this lack of communication policy on the part of the company’s management”.
So it made sure that this new factory would have that costs about 300 million euros, to be financed by the Volkswagen Group. “It is a profitable, viable project that can make our factory bigger” and that is why the multinational “has to make a decision. It did it with SEAT, why not with Volkswagen Navarra”. He has urged all parties involved to “move in the same direction” so that this project, which would create some 500 jobs, goes ahead.
For its part, the president of the regional government, María Chivite, has insisted that the executive will support the investment that Volkswagen can make if it installs an electric car battery assembly plant at its plant, but reiterated that it will decide for the multinational whether it takes on or outsources these tasks.
She stated this in statements to journalists after a visit to a factory in Marcilla, where she was asked about the meeting held yesterday with VW Navarra executives. Chivite has indicated that his government has “always worked hand in hand with Volkswagen to guarantee these investments and jobs in our community”. In fact, he added, something is now on the table that wasn’t there four years ago, “which is a committed investment of 1,024 million euros.”
Source: EITB
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