The Government of Castilla-La Mancha will demand more accountability from Mahle after announcing an ERE that could affect 170 workers at its Motilla del Palancar plant. CCOO warns of a complicated negotiation.
According to elespanol.com, Mahle has announced a new Employment Regulation File at its Motilla del Palancar (Cuenca) plant that could affect 170 workers. The Government of Castilla-La Mancha is “very disappointed” with the company’s attitude and will ask the commissioner of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan funds to demand more accountability from the multinational, both in Spain and Germany.
The first vice president of the Junta, José Luis Martínez Guijarro, expressed the regional Executive's discontent on Monday in Cuenca. He recalls that the company has received support from regional, provincial, local, and national administrations, with funds linked to the recovery plan, and laments that its executives are not meeting expectations.
“We would not want to think that this is a strategy devised from Germany to relocate companies across Europe”
Martínez Guijarro criticises that the company is not making its facilities available for new industrial projects nor seeking alternatives outside the automotive sector, two commitments that, according to him, it had assumed. The Junta demands that the facilities be used to develop other projects and that options beyond the automobile be explored.
For its part, CCOO warns that the negotiation of the new ERE will be complicated and calls on workers and citizens to mobilise. The union estimates that if the 170 positions are eliminated, the plant will have lost 636 jobs in just one year.
The general secretary of CCOO in Cuenca, Carlos Hortelano, describes the workforce as being in a state of “anguish and uncertainty” and accuses the company of acting in bad faith. The union recalls that the previous agreement stipulated the same conditions if there was a new employment adjustment within the 12 months following, and maintains that Mahle waited for that deadline to expire.
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