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Fiat Industrial global network
Metalworkers trade unions
It is with great dismay that we now discover that Fiat Industrial carries out restructurings accross Europe without the involvement of the workers' representatives on European level and sufficiently inform them about the planned changes. In the moment, chances to safeguard jobs are not fully taken. The future of many thousand direct and indirect jobs is jeopardized. We demand the immediate start of a dialogue with the affected workers' representatives and trade union accross Europe, before the measures of restructuring have been taken. We believe that Fiat Industrial restructuring plan, regarding sites in Italy, France, Austria, Germany and Spain, must be handled in a responsible and socially sustainable way. To achieve this aim, it's necessary to start a social dialogue on European level, in particular way accelerating the process of establishing a European Working Council, in order to stimulate, without any division among workers from different countries, local unios' confrontations. In addition, it's necessary a disclosure of the industrial plan of Fiat Industrial and a comprehensive information and consultation of the affected workers' representatives and their unions. We are certain that Fiat Industrial and Iveco will miss a great opportunity to win back the confidence of the commercial vehicle markets. If Fiat Industrial/Iveco will continue to reduce employment, capacities and competences at its traditional European sites, it will lose more market shares and thus cannot survive in the international markets in the long term.
We expressly demand
from the central management to immediately start a real social
dialogue in order to discuss the current problems at Fiat
Industrial and to assess common solutions for the future and
benefit of the employees and their families - without site
closures and forced redundancies. Turin, 7th June 2012 |
