The management of the Mercedes Benz Vitoria plant and the committee arrived this Thursday to a pre-agreement to avoid the application of a Temporary Employment Regulation File (ERTE), Union sources have informed EFE.
Both parties have held a meeting to analyze the scenario of the plant, which has already had to stop its production for several days due to the lack of orders. The last, the days March 1, 4 and 5 charged to the pool of hours included in the agreement.
The management also anticipates that they will not be activated as working days. April 2, 3, 4 and 5, during Easter week.
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After holding a new meeting with the management, The committee has reached a pre-agreement to avoid an ERTEbut the same sources have indicated that until a definitive agreement is reached They will not give more information.
The committee has defended in these meetings with the management an agreement so that the effort does not fall entirely on the workforce, especially the workshop one, And for what the company assumes part of the suspended days.
The Mercedes plant in Vitoria is the largest factory in the Basque Country and around 5,000 employees work directly there. Its forecast for this year is to produce 140,000 vans, after a record year, in 2023, with 157,507 vehicles assembled.
