Volkswagen will stop production for at least two weeks at the Landaben plant

Volkswagen Navarra has communicated this Wednesday to the workers that the Landaben plant will be closed for two weeks (between November 29 and December 12) by parts supply problems. In addition, after this 15-day hiatus, there will foreseeably be new closing days, although the company has not specified them yet.

According to the president of the factory’s works council, Alfredo Morales (UGT), the part for which there is no supply is the control of the climatronic, a semiconductor that comes from Thailand.

The management has communicated the news to the works council in an emergency meeting and Morales has stressed that it has been a severe blow to the 5,000 workers of Landaben. The ERTEA that the management and the unions have agreed to until the end of the year will be applied to them.

Thus, Morales has affirmed that the situation “It is very worrying“.” To the lack of semiconductors are added the days of non-work and less income, to which the lack of payment of benefits by the SEPE is being added. Let’s see how we try with the management of the company to get some air for the staff, “he said.

In this sense, Morales explained that the works council is working with the factory management on an agreement in the workplace to deal with this situation.

“We have a guarantee agreement that expires at the end of December of this year, we have to work with the management of the company to renew that agreement and have those guarantees of employment and salary the first months of next year,” he explained, in forecast that the supply problem will continue in that period.