Management has confirmed the occupancy rate of the current workforce after 2027.
The Volkswagen Group has handed over representatives of the company’s management in Navarre and its works council who give the “green light to continue analyzing the possibility of establishing the battery assembly plant at the plant based on new scenarios” from Landaben (Navarre).
On Thursday and Friday, Volkswagen Navarra Human Resources Director Kai Feuerherdt and members of the Secretariat of the Works Council Alfredo Morales and Carlos Zalduendo met with the Chairman of the Global Committee, representatives of the Group’s Executive Committee and of the brand Volkswagen, accompanied by the General Secretary of the European and World Committee of the Consortium and the Director of International Human Resources of Volkswagen.
According to a joint note from the management of Volkswagen Navarra and the works council, “the meetings held took place in a cordial atmosphere, all with absolute transparency and intensity” and were “constructive”.
The works council has had the opportunity to convey “the trajectory” of the factory and “the value of the workforce that has been shown for decades”. “The group values our factory and the work of decades of the workforce as the beacon that leads the way to success,” the note added.
After these conferences, the company’s management “confirms the volumes of current staffing after the year 2027in the knowledge and with the commitment of the committee to reach the necessary agreements to accommodate the employment pact of the years 2024, 2025 and 2026″.
Similarly, “after the petition and arguments presented by the representatives of the management of Volkswagen Navarra and the committee, the car company gives the green light to continue, based on new scenarios, to analyze the possibility that the battery assembly plant can be implanted inside the plant”.
To this end, the group has “opened the door” so that alternatives can be presented from Navarra together with the administration to install the battery factory in Landaben. “There will be a direct dialogue between them Volkswagen Navarra, the administration and the Volkswagen Group“, emphasized the chairman of the works council of Volkswagen Navarra, Alfredo Morales.
Source: EITB

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