Hyundai Mobis announced this week that it will supply VW with the batteries for its electric vehicles from a factory that appears to be in Imarcoáin. In addition, Seat, part of the Volkswagen group, announced in July that it would build another assembly plant in Martorell (Barcelona).
“Pessimism and anger” among the staff of the Navarrese factory of the German multinational Volkswagen who, even without official confirmation, are aware that the battery assembly they asked to take on as a guarantee for the future could finally be outsourced.
The chairman of the Works Council, Alfredo Moraleshas confirmed that it is aware of the announcement of Hyundai Mobis, which will supply VW with the batteries of its electric vehicles, by the media and that the management of Volkswagen Navarra also knows nothing about it, although “we give credibility” to the announcement of the Hyundai group. Also last month chairsbelonging to the Volkswagen group, announced to build in Martorel (Barcelona) a battery cell assembly plant.
Faced with this news, Morales has said that “we will continue to demand what we believe is fair to us, and try to avoid making a historical mistake in our Community’s industry”, since outsourcing battery assembly presupposes that investment and future value are extracted from the factory.
For example, he warned “it means a inflection point for Volkswagen Navarra. Not only are we losing competitiveness, but also our fundamental element, which is the battery, is outpacing the competition from the Volkswagen Group, such as Hyundai. And we do not guarantee employability from the year 2027-2030.”
In addition, “we harm our community in environmental terms, we harm the sustainability of what is the transportation of goods, also of our community,” because the Mobis factory appears to be in Imarcoáin, 10 kilometers from Landabenwith what it means to move trucks between one factory and another.
The chairman of the works council has also been very critical of those who have made the news known for good one less evil because in the same way it will create jobs in Navarre, an argument that Morales has made ugly: “Whoever is happy and satisfied with that generates and makes poorer workers, because I am convinced that they will be our breadwinners, but they will not have the conditions that employees at Volkswagen Navarra have today”.
In all this, he pointed out that in two weeks, after returning from the holiday the staff are now on – which has also led to “ultimate anger and indignation” know this news when they are disconnected – the committee will start preparing the factory collective agreement negotiations
After acknowledging that “we are in a moment of great pessimism and anger,” he has advanced: “This will effectively get us to sit down when we come back and take the measures we need to take so that all those who have had to see so that this decree is finally passed, have one reaction appropriate to indignation and the negative consequences it may have from the year 2030″.
Source: EITB
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