Fiat union FIOM is due to hold a press conference in Rome today (19 July) following weekend judgements for and against its stance concerning the contentious Pomigliano D’Arco plant.
According to FIOM, a Turin Tribunal found for Fiat establishing new worker relations at the site near Naples, but ruled in favour of allowing the labour body union representation.
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“Every single worker now working in the Pomigliano plant is asked by the company to resign and then one second after, they [Fiat] call them to work in the new company,” a FIOM spokesman in Italy told just-auto.
“This allows the company to start a new relation with the workers, not to deal them the same rights and the same positions they had before. This was the question we did pose to the Tribunal – the Tribunal said the company is right and we are wrong.”
Despite that setback, the union spokesman added the Tribunal had noted Fiat ” is compelled” to allow FIOM worker representation at the plant, although he said the automaker had shown its anger at the development.
“They are obliged to recognise us,” said the spokesman. “Maybe Fiat will ask for a new judgement – it has shown it is angry.”
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By GlobalDataLast year, Fiat made a direct link with productivity improvements in order to secure a transfer of work on the new Panda from its Polish plant to Pomigliano d’Arco.
The automaker dangled the carrot of increasing the site’s output from 40,000 vehicles to 300,000 models per year.
Fiat was not immediately available for comment.
