Iñigo Urkullu has “very hopefully” concluded the meeting with the company’s management in Germany. Asked about the strike of the Vitoria-Gasteiz employees, he positions himself in favor of the company, because without that commitment “there is no future for management or for workers”.
Euskaraz irakurri: Lehendakariak malgutasuna “barneratzeko” deia egin du Mercedes-Benzera egindako bisitan
the lehendakari Inigo Urkullu has “renewed the . commitment to collaboration and dialogue” with Mercedes Benz in a meeting in Stuttgart (Germany), after which he called “Internalize” flexibility and agility that both the German company and the automotive sector and industry are “searching”.
Urkullu, as well as the Minister of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment, Arantxa Tapiaand other institutional positions, has met with Mathias GeisenCEO of Mercedes-Benz Vans, and other executives of the car company, from whom they received a “very detailed presentation” about the challenges of the future and a “sense of recognition” in the Vitoria-Gasteiz . factory
The Basque government seeks with the visit “guarantee investments and future projects” of the company in the Basque Autonomous Community. “We continue to invest in improving the industrial ecosystem of the automotive industry”, stated de Lehendakari.
Asked about the workers’ strike at the Alava plant for the negotiations of the new agreement, the Lehendakari wanted to separate the “two different planes” of the visit, scheduled for March 1, and the labor dispute.
Urkullu has emphasized that it is the first time the plant has been paralyzed and has asked “Internalize” the flexibility and agility that Mercedes-Benz so demands like the rest of the car companies and the productive economy sector in general. “These concepts must be internalized within what is the present, present and future reality,” he stated.
The Lehendakari has positioned itself “in favor of the company”, because according to the Lehendakari there is “no future for the management or for the workers” without this commitment. “Our commitment is to the company,” he said.
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Source: EITB
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