viu PSUC Policy Secretariat.
The automotive sector is one of the engines of industry production in Catalonia. The sector represents 7.5 % Of GDP in Catalonia and construction companies such as Seat, Nissan, Mercedes Benz and Iveco Irisbus manufactured 25% of automobile production in the whole of Spain. In parallel, the sub-sector suppliers and automotive components in Catalunya employs 85,000 workers. Being very notable
the weight of the automobile industry for the Catalan economy, the sector is undergoing a period of restructuring and job loss in volume due to the process of economic crisis and slowing production. The current economic situation is profoundly affecting the automotive sector in Catalonia and only since January until April 2009 and 92 have been applied job layoffs (ERE's) that have affected a total of 17,842 workers. The layoffs presented in Nissan, Iveco Irisbus and Seat situation around the award of the new Audi Q3 in exchange for a wage freeze in 2009 and 2010 exemplify the precarious state of the sector in Catalonia and the offensive of the employers by make the working class pay the drop in car sales. NISSAN
At Nissan, the address presented on 15 June a contract ERE extinctions affecting 581 workers at plants in Montcada i Reixach and Free Zone Barcelona. A measure that the multinational has applied days after signing with the social representation of voluntary agreement to guarantee re-entry in 2012 and did not plan to publicly state that the submission of any record of regulation. Since October 2008, when the direction of the company presented a 1,680-extinguishing ERE contracts Nissan template lives under the constant threat of losing their jobs. In February 2009 the situation was resolved on a non-traumatic by an agreement of voluntary redundancies, early retirement and early retirement for workers over 55 years and the commitment of the company of a model segment B in 2012 and a van in 2009. However, the management of the multinational insists on making staff reductions in order to reduce staff by 40%. Nissan's corporate policy is immoral and unacceptable when the multinational is registered in Spain between 2003 and 2008 about 300 million euro profit. That is, once again, the sector employer decides to socialize the losses (or a decline in sales in some cases) after years of little benefit in a context of wage moderation and increased the rate of temporary employment. IVECO
Irisbus
The situation Irisbus Iveco plant Free Zone of Barcelona is also a product of the strategy of Fiat Italian multinational drastically reduce its English factories templates. Iveco Spain is the heir of the old company Pegaso from that in 1990 the Fiat Group was made with 60% of ENASA (Empresa Nacional de lorries SA) and established production facilities in Madrid, Valladolid and Barcelona. In 1995, Iveco and Renault agree to the creation of Iveco Irisbus, incorporating the division of buses and coaches in the production, procurement process, which ended in 2002 when the Fiat Group is a 100% stake in Iveco Irisbus. Iveco facilities based in Zona Franca de Barcelona are divided into three floors, Iveco Irisbus dedicated to chassis mounting city and intercity buses, Comesa, dedicated to the production of light vehicle components and assembly Daily Iveco gearboxes, engines and engineering, as a testing and design (R & D). In Iveco Irisbus
address presented on April 23 a record of employment regulation (ERE) of 90-day suspension of contracts affecting 238 workers, the entire staff. The removal of bus production Cityclas and management decision to manufacture the new Iveco bus Citelis in factories in Italy, France and the Czech Republic and not in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bas well planned, has caused the submission of a dossier of regulation that only covers 70% of salary and also suffers from an industrial plan that ensures the future of the plant. A labor dispute which together with the ERE'S of Comesa, Iveco Madrid, where the management intended to lay off 1024 workers in a workforce of 2401 and Iveco Valladolid with the presentation of a case of suspension of contracts that affected 1200 workers / as the plant has helped the unit response templates Iveco different centers. The exemplary reaction of the workers should Irisbus Iveco of making both the public as to the local government and state. In this sense, the adoption of the Plan VIVE for buses and coaches can not relieve the public of a conflict arising from the relocation of manufacturing the same bus purchased by English municipalities for public transport. SEAT
June 29 Seat address union representatives informed the decision to submit a new record for the Regulation of Employment (ERE) temporary and would affect a maximum of 7,789 workers. The ERE is the third presented in the last eight months and is preceded by an agreement to freeze wages for the years 2009 and 2010 driven by the union section of UGT and ratified in a referendum to staff on 18 March. From PSUC viu believe that the crisis has been caused by the wage of the working class and that is why the solution to the serious economic situation can not settle in the loss of purchasing power of workers or extend wage freeze with the sole intention of reconciling the accounts of multinational corporations in a context of productive trouble. Believes the position of the confederal unions in the field in the Collective Bargaining Agreements (ANC) 2009 in his defense of wage and precisely why we produce some disappointment Seat outcome in respect of wage bargaining, especially when Volkswagen Group's own publicly admitted that the award of the Audi Q3 to the Seat plant in Martorell has been chosen by reasons of quality, productivity, professionalism and qualifications of the staff of Seat. Or what is the same, the wage issue is not decisive Seat in the manufacture of a new model when only represents 7% of the final product and the two-year wage freeze for the company means a cost savings of 5 million euros.
ERE's recent shows presented by Seat further that the underlying problem is not wages but the lack of demand that causes the Martorell plant to work only two-thirds of its production capacity. Thus, to address the current over-supply specific ERE temporary lay-offs in a phased manner between 31 August and 23 December. Unlike the previous two ERE'S Seat social part has already expressed its willingness to sign the ERE if it satisfies the social conditions that the workers voted overwhelmingly in the last referendum. From PSUC viu think there are fundamental issues such as to ensure coverage of 100% of salary and the rotating nature of the ERE and ERE exclusion of those over 53 years with the idea to envision for the near future to address the need to negotiate a new agreement on early retirement as an extension of the existing early retirement plan that ends in December 2009.
July 2009.
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