The management of the tire manufacturer Bridgestone has communicated this Friday to the workers' committee its decision to request a file for temporary suspension of contracts or ERTE for productive reasons, which will affect all the staff of the four work centers in Spain, some 2,600 workers. This measure comes after the multinational tried unsuccessfully to apply a negative flexibility system for all plants the last week of the year, a measure rejected by the committee last week.
Union sources have detailed to EFE that the company has limited itself this Friday to sending the committee a letter communicating its intention for the factories of Burgos, Puente San Miguel (Cantabria), and Usánsolo and Basauri (Vizcaya). The management of the Japanese multinational Bridgestone raised a few days ago its intention to stop production in all plants the last week of the year, as a result of the stock in the warehouses and the reduction of orders planned for those dates. The company proposed using the flexibility system, provided for in the current collective agreement, something that was rejected by the committee considering that it would mean reducing payroll by 25% for the first six days of application, 50% for the following six and a 75% for the others up to a total of 21 days.
The plant most affected by this proposal was the Cantabrian plant in San Miguel, for which it was requested to apply negative flexibility from December 21 to 31, and an additional reduction in production from December 1. In turn, in Burgos, Usánsolo and Basauri, negative flexibility was proposed from December 26 to 31 because sales did not reach the budgeted volume for at least three consecutive months, so that there is an increase in inventories above the level considered. necessary for adequate supply to the market.
Bridgestone's proposal excluded applying the negative flexibility to the finished product warehouses and in Bilbao to the banbury section (mixing of materials) and all those others necessary for the normal operation of the plant, as well as the maintenance personnel necessary to carry out Preventive actions.
