No news, but with an aura of optimism. This is how the meeting of UGT-PV, the majority shareholder in the Ford Valencia plant, with the company’s global management ends. The union has issued a statement to explain that the meeting has ended in a “positive and constructive” manner and that it will be tomorrow when more details of the probable agreement reached by the company and workers will be known, since the document reports that the text will be ” of both the European Works Council and Ford of Europe.
The union had placed high expectations on this meeting, held in Dunton (England) and referred to it this week with concepts such as “agreement” and “patience.” At today’s meeting the union expected the management to speak out on its strategy to be developed in Europe, since the works council opted for the Agreement for Electrification which led, months later, to the management choosing the factory to be its electric platform on the continent in front of the German plant in Saarlouis.
“Our Agreement and our patience are the keys to our plant opting for the award of a vehicle to be able to transition to electrification,” argued days ago UGT-PV, which organized the conference “The transformation of the automotive sector” a few weeks ago. on electrification in Valencia while the Valencian factory was still waiting.
And in this context was added the announcement a few days ago of the extension of the ERTE, which was to end tomorrow and will be extended for three more weeks and involving more workers, since the launch of the KUGA will not increase its production due to problems with suppliers until the April 19th.
Both the staff and the Valencian auxiliary industry are pending on the decision that is known tomorrow, which has experienced various ups and downs in recent months due to the lack of definition of the tractor company. The Valencian administration was also aware of the movements at the plant: recently President Carlos Mazón visited the Almussafes factory where he reiterated the Consell’s commitment to the Valencian automotive industry.
