The address of Volkswagen Navarre transferred this Friday “a “message of tranquility” to the works council on the possible effects that the Volkswagen’s situation in Germany for the Navarrese factory, as explained Chairman of the Works Council of the Landaben factory, Alfredo Morales.
Morales said that this Friday a Meeting between the committee and the management of Volkswagen Navarraat the request of the unions, so that “we are informed of the situation our company is experiencing and specifically of everything that reaches us on the situation of the German plants“.
Alfredo Morales stressed that “the director of human resources informed us of what we all already see, that there is a Very difficult situation in factories in Germanydifficult situation because Electric strategy not going as planned from the beginning.”
“This led to a excess capacity currently available in these factories and as a result of all this, logically, a economic and financial problem to be able to face the transformation towards electric vehicles, which is a project that has been endorsed by the group’s own management, whether or not we are moving towards that, towards the electric vehicle, and for this transformation at the moment what we have is a financial problem,” he noted.
The chairman of the works council explained that, according to management, “at present, it is obvious that The problem is concentrated in factories in Germany and as to whether this could have a contagion effect on other factories, particularly ours, the answer was no.” “In other words, the HR director said that The focus is not on Volkswagen Navarra from a negative point of view“Yes, from a positive point of view, because what it means is that in this case we are the mirror in which they seek to solve many of the problems that the company currently has in Germany,” he assured.
In this sense, Morales stressed that “the message he has transmitted, in general, is a worrying message focused on German factories, but As for Volkswagen Navarra, it is a message of tranquility and a very positive message too, because this mirror in which we seek to correct some things that are not done well must make us feel that we have done the job well, that we are doing it well and that the agreements that we have reached are successful and serve the objective that we had set ourselves, which was to transform our factory slowly, gradually, to continue to maintain our combustion cars, in parallel with the transformation to electric, for what we have said on several occasions about having a certain cushion in case one of the two does not go as planned.
This is why the chairman of the works council declared that “The meeting was logically worrying in general, but reassuring when it comes to our factory and our future.”
