At 1:30 p.m., the Zumaia City Council, the Ministry of Economy, the Basque Government, the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa and Cofides will discuss the situation in Astilleros Balenciaga and tomorrow a second meeting will take place with representatives of the workers, but without attendance. of the Spanish government.
After officially declaring the bankruptcy of the Balenciaga shipyard, and given the uncertainty experienced by the workforce, two important meetings will be held today and tomorrow to try to change the company’s situation.
The first of these will take place this afternoon, from 1:30 p.m., via telematics, a meeting in which the Zumaia City Council, the Ministry of Economy, the Basque Government, the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa and Cofides will participate.
Representatives of the employees or the company will not participate in this meeting, but will participate in the meeting that will take place tomorrow, Thursday, at 3 p.m. in Zumaia, this time in person. There is no confirmed presence of the Spanish government at this meeting.
Employees of the Balenciaga shipyard gathered this Wednesday in San Sebastián in front of the headquarters of the government subdelegation in Gipuzkoa, where they insisted on asking the central government to come and sit at the institutional table on Thursday to look for the viability of the Zumaia company, that is bankrupt. and a ‘contribution’ to ‘defending our jobs’.
Yesterday, Tuesday, the Commercial Court officially declared Astilleros Balenciaga bankrupt. The order allows the owners to continue managing the company’s day-to-day operations, but under the supervision of a liquidator, the firm PKF Attest.
PKF Attest is the same company that managed the administration of La Naval de Sestao, which could not be saved. Creditors of Balenciaga, which has a debt of 37 million euros, now have one month to submit their claims.
If the shipyard wants to move forward, it must look like an investor paying some of the debt, and with a viability plan that the judge will accept.
Source: EITB
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