Automatic Europe. Suspending production could put precarious workers at risk

The person in charge guarantees that this issue will also be on the table at next week’s meetings with the company and that everything will be done “to regard these workers with the social concern that must be present at this moment.”“We are concerned about this situation,” admits the workers’ committee regarding precarious employment at Autoeuropa.

This Friday, Economic Magazine He stated that 100 workers on temporary contracts must be laid off within two months of stopping production at the factory.

Regarding the number of employees who will be laid off, Rogerio Nogueira mentioned this “There are departments that will continue to operate, but the vast majority of workers – more than 50 percent – will be covered.”with no specific numbers yet.

He stressed that “more than half of the factory’s workers will certainly be laid off.”
The company “has conditions” to guarantee income
The financial conditions of workers in Europe will be discussed in two meetings on Monday and Tuesday. The workers’ committee explained: “We will listen to proposals regarding the financial conditions that workers who will be laid off from their jobs will receive during these nine weeks.”

“For our part, we are convinced and We believe that the company has the necessary conditions to ensure this complex process goes through – Workers are the least responsible for what happens – Income for workers“Nogueira thinks.

“It is the intention of the workers committee that the workers should not be harmed. We have a very positive culture in this company, a culture of dialogue throughout all these years of our existence, where in adverse situations like this we have always managed to find solutions so that workers are not harmed in a certain way.

Therefore, the Workers’ Committee is convinced that “it will not be different this time.” We will sit with the company and find a solution so that the workers are not harmed by this process“.

Production was suspended between September 11 and November 12 due to a shortage of parts needed to build the engine. It is produced by a supplier in Slovenia that was affected by the floods at the beginning of August.