Ford poses for an ERE 455 workers Valencia

The address of the Ford plant in Almussafes (Valencia) has informed the union representatives present in the works of its intention to apply for a new Regulatory Record of Employment (ERE) temporary that affect more than 455 workers at the engine plant for 75 days.

On this occasion, as reported to company sources, the multinational oval raised a total of 75 days of strikes in the engine plant to be distributed along a year from next March to March 2010 and will "to a maximum of 455 workers."

Following the meeting held with the union representation of the plant, the management of the factory he started the consultation period for the filing of the new ERE temporary, unlike the others, "only to the plant engines. "

After 15 days of this phase of consultation, the Directorate General of Labor, which is dependent on the Generalitat Valenciana, who decides whether or not the ERE temporary agreement has been reached or not with committee, have said the same sources.

In this regard, the secretary general of the UGT in Ford Almussafes, Gonzalo Pino, has stressed that the company attributed the introduction of this new record to the fact that " American market does not demand that engines would be produced for that market, with a reduction in the initial order for 55,000 units to 3,000 engines, and stressed that this is a very complex situation "for workers.

Pino

Has announced that the union, mostly in the plant, is "to reject the new record, as was earlier," and also "on this occasion, not only that, but require that the company submit a feasibility plan and complete the negotiation of the collective agreement to end uncertainty for workers. "

"It is imperative that the company thought and decided to finalize the negotiation of the agreement, which would plan the true viability of the plant, and also prevent the workers continue with their rights in the air," he added.

Ensuring continuity "

The same line, Gonzalo Pino said that the multinational has to ensure the continuity of the factory, received aid or not, "and, indeed, stressed that" it seems incomprehensible that the same day it receives assistance from Valencian Government, to present a new ERE, "referring to the grant of 6,226,092.73 euros granted by the Spanish Government to Ford for the manufacture and marketing engine, through a game of 'Incentives autonomous' from the Budget autonomic, 2008.

The head of

CCOO, Miquel Rosaleny, emphasized that "an ERE very serious and very serious" because it means "stop work one third of the working days a year," done "yet more important at the impact for affected workers, who will see how those 75 days of work stoppages involving 100 days of unemployment consumed, "according to Europa Press said.

Rosaleny warned that "a serious case of deep draft, which may be the foreshadowing of other things" and assured that CC.OO will "try every possible way to negotiate the ERE, try to reduce and to supplement the salaries of those affected. "It is shameful that while Ford Spain receives a direct subsidy of the Council, these workers were unemployed with 80 percent of wages," he said.

Meanwhile, representatives of the CGT trade union section will meet with the director general of Labor, Romn Ceballos, to transfer their "demand to correct the many errors that were detected on the payroll of the workers who were affected by the ERE of the last quarter of 2008. "

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ERE

Labor Directorate of the Generalitat Valenciana authorized on December 24 of the ERE temporal Ford Almussafes affecting over 16 days to a total of 4577 workers at the plant in Valencia, 600 less than those proposed by management, file which was rejected by the works following the refusal of the company make up 95 percent of those affected wages.

In January, the company announced its decision to "move forward" eight of the twelve days of stoppages for the remainder of the time after the four ERE in January, so that these strikes will take place on Friday of this month February and the last week of that month - on 6, 13, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27 --.

Multinational car, which this year presented another ERE time since last September 29 to December 17 for about 1,000 employees, announced in November that would stop production of vehicles for eleven days until the end of 2008, 8 andalusia December 24, for "no" have "to work orders", a decision that meant stop producing 9000 units of the Ford Focus and not caused any injury wage for their workers.