From Fiat to Stellantis, this is how we lost 65 thousand workers: “Now John Elkann stops plans for Tavares” – Turin News

Workers under betrayal, Marchionne’s promises and “subservience” towards many governments towards Agnelli, “who forsake the chariot.” And an appeal to John Elkann: “Stop Tavares plans.” All this is happening in the hours of the day when, from the car trade union, comes the opinion and analysis of the situation of the old Fiat in Italy, a reality that many believe is now over.

“All the governments, especially the bad ones of the left, have accused of loyalty to Fiat, more than Fiat to the Agnelli family. now we are faced with the escape of the Agnellis from Italy” said Giorgio Airaudo, the historical name of Fiom-Cgil, to the microphone of “Giù la mask” on RadioRai. References to the decrease in employment, in the industrial production capacity: today Mirafiori has practically stopped, with total. stopping for a whole month of May From memory it’s hard to get through an entire month without a single E car leaving the historic factory the workforce, from Fiat to FCA and then in the Italian part of Stellantis, has been reduced to more than a third in less than twenty-five years.. There are various reasons: restructuring of factories – Termini Imerese, Rivalta and Grugliasco closed for example -, reduction of production in relation to the market, globalization of production itself and investment in low-cost areas.

For Airaudo, the decline started with the then CEO Sergio Marchionne, who changed Fiat to FCA. “Even today Mirafiori is out of the national contract – he says – due to Marchionne’s promises to have a salary like the Germans. There was a referendum, in which Fiom voted against, but the workers were subject to betrayal. And today we can say that Marchionne lied to us“.

The suspicion that the Group lacks “Italianness” always remains under the radar, even if it is true Even in France they are not doing wellas indicated by the supplier strike and the shutdown of three factories. “It’s a global reality, in this new direction thinking of Turin as we were used to in the days of the Agnelli brothers no longer makes sense – says Ferdinando Uliano, general secretary of Fim Cisl, in an interview with Beemagazine -. In the Stellantis Group, Turin and Italy represent one of the three realities along with France and the United States”.

“I believe the debate about Italy is not very useful for the real issue – he continues – which is to protect jobs and the automotive industry in our country. We need to direct funding, at least in part, to ensure production in Italian factoriesBut Uliano puts the emphasis on the “head” of the Group, a strategy that does not even start in Paris, but from Portagallo: “The governance of the group is. in the hands of the Tavares people who continued the work already underway at Psa and Opel, to reduce costsimproving plant efficiency and labor integration, as well as tensions with our trade union representatives”.

But it is also true that he is the president of the Group John Elkann, Agnelli’s nephew, who still has an office in Turin – where he is usually present on Mondays – and his residence, although his life passes a lot in New York and France. “Also thanks to the rules of the board – Uliano insists – he must be consulted with CEO Carlos Tavares on some strategic issues of great importance. Elkann, therefore, has a say in decisions of vital importance for the future of the group. You should say a few more words about Turin and Italy”.