The general secretary of the UGT, Pepe Alvarezestimated that Sunsundegui can “continue producing” and requested support from the Government of Navarre for the “maintenance of industrial activity”.
In statements to the media in Pamplona, Álvarez defended that the Regional Executive “We must act, there are not only 400 workers, we are surely talking about more than 800 workers in the area.”
Thus, he stressed that the UGT will work so that the company “maintains the activity, there is no reason why it should not maintain it” and insisted on the fact that “the Administration and the instruments available to the Administration “They must be at the service, not of the closure of businesses, not of liquidation, but of maintaining industrial activity.”
For Pepe Álvarez, sunsundegui “It has elements to be able to continue producing and that is what governments are for, precisely to act and be able to maintain activity and jobs” in an area that “needs to strengthen everything that concerns the industrial sector “.
VW NAVARRA IS IN “GOOD CONDITION” AND “DID ITS HOMEWORK”
On the other hand, when asked about Volkswagen crisis in GermanyPepe Álvarez stressed that “the factories in Spain, especially that of Landaben, have good conditions, they have done their homework.”
He explained that “currently Volkswagen looks more at what has been done in Germany and to what extent it is updated or not and he considered that “we have all the elements to defend the factory, which is also a factory which has both electricity and fuel to be able to continue working.” “But it’s a multinational and I think we can’t hide this ‘but’,” he admitted.
Álvarez stated that UGT at the Landaben factory “He did everything so that today, in a crisis situation like the one we are experiencing, there is no argument on the part of Volkswagen to take other measures than strengthening and expanding the possibilities productive aspects of the company.”
