The Generalitat Valenciana will sit down to negotiate with Thyssenkrupp Galmed to address technical possibilities and alternatives to the closure of the Sagunt plant. In a meeting held between the teams of the Department of Education and Employment directed by José Antonio Rovira and the Department of Industry with the management of the company in Germany, both have agreed to open a technical working group to study alternatives in the plant Valencian.
The company, which would be willing to study any alternative, as this newspaper has learned, explained at the meeting how the current situation has affected this decision. Although the announcement to the staff was made on November 23, the possible closure would not be expected to occur before a year.
This Thursday’s meeting will be joined by the next one to be held with the representatives of the workforce, headed by the CCOO-PV union, which, as La Vanguardia already explained, will fight for the maintenance of the plant, also appealing to the spirit that allowed it to reopen. in 2016 after another closure that occurred three years earlier.
At the meeting between CCOO-PV and the Valencian Government, which was going to take place this week and was finally postponed, CCOO-PV will ask for an Automotive Roundtable to address both the crisis at Thyssenkrupp and the other closures announced at other factories in the industry. sector assistant.
These contacts are in addition to those also produced this week in Sagunt, where the mayor, Darío Moreno, has also held a meeting with European representatives of the company to find out the details of the possible closure of the headquarters in Sagunt. The meeting, in which the CEO of ThyssenKrupp Galmed, Tiago Vieira, was also present, was, according to the Saguntino council, like “a first contact” in order to address the situation of the city plant.
Likewise, yesterday the Board of Spokespersons of the same City Council met with the members of the Thissenkrupp-Galmed works council and with the general secretary of the Camp de Morvedre and Alto Palancia Workers’ Commissions, Sergio Villalba. Although this was “aligned with the need to protect both jobs and the city’s steel industry,” he stressed that the leading role in these negotiations must be for the workers.
