The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, held a meeting this Wednesday with the president and CEO of Ford Spain, Jesús Alonso; the director of Manufacturing of Ford Spain, Dionisio Campos, and the director of Institutional Relations of the company, Fernando Acebron.
The multinational has explained that today is one more of the usual periodic meetings with the Generalitat Valenciana. However, it is also Carlos Mazón's first meeting with the company's management and the meeting takes place a week after the UGT-PV union, the majority at the plant, insists on asking the company to make known its plans for electrification. "As long as the situation does not change and Ford decides to reveal its plans regarding the future of electrification, it will not be possible to agree, at least with UGT, on temporary formulas that reduce the impact of going through periods of low production," read the statement from some days ago.
The union explained that this last week of September the company is facing a new drop in production, a fact that is added to the forecast of a total shutdown of the factory for the second week of October, when the holiday of October 9 and the Pilar bridge. That is why UGT-PV asks for "employability solutions in non-production tasks" for the surplus of personnel from this last week.
According to the Presidency, during the meeting aspects of the joint collaboration between the automobile company and the Generalitat Valenciana have been addressed, and the relevance of the multinational in the Valencian economy and in the development of the automobile sector in the Valencian Community.
Also participating in the meeting were the Minister of Finance, Economy and Public Administration, Ruth Merino; the Minister of Environment, Water, Infrastructure and Territory, Salomé Pradas; and the Minister of Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Nuria Montes.
