“The government has done its part, the company has not”. From the meeting in Rimini, the Minister of Business and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, takes a swipe at Stellantis, asking for concrete signals. And at the end of the day, the group led by Carlos Tavares responds sharply. “It is essential that all the players in the value chain – including the government – contribute to creating the right conditions for competitiveness, market dynamics and also for tranquility, which are essential to achieve the epochal transition that mobility is experiencing”. At the top of the list of priorities for Urso, the gigafactory in Termoli, with the project postponed by ACC, the joint venture between the group, Mercedes-Benz and TotalEnergies: “It must give an answer because if, for example, in these hours it does not respond positively”, “the resources of the PNRR” allocated to this plant “will inevitably be used for something else”. And he cuts short: “We cannot lose the resources of the PNRR because Stellantis does not keep its commitments. And the deadline is in the next few hours”.
And on this issue too, Stellantis does not hold back and specifies: «As regards ACC for Termoli, it is currently strengthening the Gigafactory project, in addition to the one in Germany, in order to introduce a new technology for the production of cells and modules, in order to be in line with the evolution of the market. On the part of Stellantis, several decisions have been taken to increase the workload of hybrid components in Termoli». We then move on to the objective of one million vehicles produced in Italy. As at the automotive table last August 7, Urso reiterates that the executive has respected all the commitments made with Tavares. In the first meeting, the manager «asked me – he recalls – two things, perhaps believing that they were impossible to achieve. First, to remove the obstacle of Euro 7», then «an incentive plan commensurate with production in Italy: 1 billion euros. With the aim of scrapping the highest number of Euro 0, 1, 2,3 vehicles, highly polluting», which «we have achieved. We also had the objective of supporting Italian production», which «did not happen because it was Stellantis that had to increase production in our country to respond to the requests prompted by the incentives».
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And on this issue too the answer is clear: «Stellantis remains focused on the execution of the plan for Italy for the coming years, already communicated to the union partners, which includes important projects such as the one for Mirafiori 2030». The harshest jab addressed by the minister to the entrepreneur, however, is the one related to his salary. «The compensation of managers – he underlines – should be commensurate not only with the dividends of the shareholders, but also with the social sustainability of the country, with the jobs it creates».
Prodding the company and urging the executive from the stage shared in Rimini with Urso is the general secretary of the Cisl, Luigi Sbarra. Stellantis “must tell us what investments, models, guarantees on production capacity and on safeguarding employment” and the government “I ask to speed up because uncertainty and silence are no longer tolerable”. The Italian factories are suffering: “There is fear and insecurity in Melfi, where Stellantis has announced 5 new models but two more years of redundancy payments are needed. In the first months of 2025, redundancy payments will cease for direct employees and for the related industries with the risk of losing almost 25 thousand jobs”.
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2024-08-23 07:06:06
