Mercedes Vitoria announces a six-month ERTE

The address of the plant Mercedes Benz in Vitoria-Gasteiz has informed the staff that it will apply a FOR HIM of a maximum of 30 days per person for the first six months of the year by the semiconductor supply crisis. The measure will affect more than 4.669 workers, while 269 would be left out of the plan, as reported by the UGT union.

This Thursday, the company and the committee met and those responsible for the plant in Alava explained the current situation of semiconductors and told them that, although the group is having supply problems at the different German plants, the beginning of the year at the plant of Vitoria-Gasteiz has been “Excellent”, so they have been four consecutive weeks without a supply problem.

Therefore, next week it would be produced normally from Monday to Friday in the Alava factory, but they believe that the week of January 30 they may have “problems with some critical part”, so next Wednesday they will confirm the production. for the first days of February.

UGT has indicated that the company has informed them that this supply “instability” of the so-called semiconductors is the one that justifies the new ERTE request for the workers of the Vitoria-Gasteiz workforce for 30 days for the first six months of the year.

For its part, the LAB union has demanded “dignified conditions” for the people affected and has defended that “the staff of Mercedes, the contractors and the supplier companies, cannot bear the alleged problem, but must be the company who assumes it”.

In that sense, they have recalled that “Mercedes obtained last year a profit of 276 million euros, that the production forecast for this year has been the highest in history and that they continue to apply a double salary scale”.