The company Saint-Gobain Sekurit in Spain will lay off 60 workers from the plant located in the Arboç (Tarragona) and 40 more from the factory Aviles (Asturias). The company has communicated this week to the workers that it has presented a Employment Regulation File (ERE), which has been justified by the drop in demand for vehicle manufacturing. Side and rear windows for cars are manufactured at this plant, an activity that employs nearly 300 people, including temporary employees. In 2020, the company already presented an ERE that affected, in that case, the glass division and a hundred workers who were relocated to other plants of the multinational.
The company’s management met on Thursday with representatives of the workforce to inform them of the ERE. In a statement, the company assures that the decision to reduce the workforce is due to the need to adapt its structure to the “current size of the glass market”, since, it says, the trend indicates that pre-pandemic sales will not recover. According to the multinational, last year it had losses of 4 million euros and they calculate that this year the figure could get worse. The forecast is that the red numbers reach 6.6 million.
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Once the ERE has been communicated, a seven-day process now begins to set up the negotiating table and then the countdown will begin to negotiate the dismissal conditions. In parallel, the workers and the company are also negotiating a Temporary Employment Regulation File (ERTE) for twelve days this June.
On their side, the unions with representation in the company have denounced that the management intends to reduce the structures of the work centers “taking advantage of the current situation of the automobile market and, at the same time, reduce the working and social conditions of the workers” .