The in-depth hearing on the FCA Italia group was held at the XI labor and social security commission of the Senate of the Republic. The general secretary of the Fim Cisl Marco Bentivogli intervenes citing a fact of a historical nature on the Fiat affair: the company has restarted, from a situation that in 2008 saw it to the point of taking the books to court for bankruptcy, thanks to the agreements signed we have committed the group to make significant investments in the Italian plants.
From 2013 to today - underlines the trade unionist - the group has gone, net of retirements, from 65.300 to 66.200 employed and has seen a drastic drop in the use of hours for social safety nets from 27% to 5%.
Even the production data recorded an ever-increasing trend up to September of this year and went from around 600 cars in 2013 to 1 million at the end of 2017.
The changes in the regulations on the stocks of the Asian markets - added Bentivogli - where FCA was recording record numbers, are causing a contraction in sales, especially on premium models: Alfa Romeo and Maserati.
Thanks to the excellent profitability deriving from the sales of premium brands, the group's overall debt is being reduced, but in order to hold on to the global market, in which FCA operates today, it is increasingly necessary to seek strategic industrial alliances in order to be able to face the technological challenges which in the future will have an impact on the entire automotive sector.
For these reasons - concluded Bentivogli - we expect the next industrial presentation of the group, scheduled for May 2018, to give continuity to investments to quickly reach full employment.
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