Ford's global management has committed to assigning the Almussafes (Valencia) factory the production of a passenger vehicle with which the factory will “maintain sufficient workload” while the future of electrification is decided, as explained by the company. majority union in the plant, UGT.
This was conveyed by the global president of the firm, Jim Farley, to the workers' representatives at the meeting held this Wednesday between Ford's global and European management and the European Works Council in Dunton (England), which for the union concluded “in a positive and constructive way.” On April 10, the details of this assignment will be delved into at a new meeting that will take place in Cologne.
This decision represents a respite for the Almussafes factory, which as of April 17 was left with a single manufacturing model – the Kuga, since it stops producing the Transit van – and is immersed in a temporary regulation file. employment (ERTE) until April 19. In just six years, the Valencian factory has gone from producing almost 370,000 cars in 2018 of five different models, to making just under 212,000 last year, which represents a drop of 42%. In between, the factory, in addition to the imminent loss of the van, stopped making the Mondeo, the S-Max and the Galaxy
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