One of Fiat’s major unions says both the automaker and the labour body will now have to wait up to 60 days to receive a detailed judgement concerning the Pomigliano d’Arco plant.
According to the FIOM union – some of whose members staged an eight-hour walkout last Friday – a Tribunal in Turin found both for Fiat to establish new worker relations at the site but equally allowed labour representation at the factory near Naples.
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“The next step is that both the company and us are waiting to hear the text of this [Tribunal] to explain why the judge reached his decision,” a FIOM spokesman in Italy told just-auto. “This will be within 60 days.”
“Fiat has said it is not happy and maybe it will ask for a new judgement.”
It appears the judge has settled elements of both parties’ claims, although of the two perhaps it is Fiat which will be more satisfied, having tried for some time to drive through improved productivity packages in its home Italian market.
Nonetheless Fiat is preferring to remain quiet concerning the Tribunal judgement, confining itself to noting union representation at Pomigliano d’Arco was “not an issue” and that it had no further comments to make.
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By GlobalData“It is not because we don’t want to be clear, it is because there is nothing obvious to add,” a Fiat spokesman in Turin told just-auto. “Obviously we are in Italy and we have to follow the sentence of the Tribunal.”
In terms of worker rights at the plant, the FIOM spokesman noted if employees went to the Tribunal to say their previous entitlements were not being recognised in the new organisation, the union would help them “in this legal situation,” although he was unable to estimate how many would take that step.
The Pomigliano plant has been beset with controversy as Fiat attempts to secure productivity improvements so that work can transfer on the new Panda from Poland to Italy.
