In an interview with Corriere della Sera, l'Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne has announced that Lingotto intends to resume investments in the Melfi plant, also giving a short-term deadline: "Within the year we will begin to spend the first money". From 2014 Melfi will produce the mini SUV and the jeep, initially destined for the Mirafiori plant in Turin.
Marchionne also spoke of the European car market, and of the crisis that is crushing it, adding, however, that at the moment the conditions exist to begin the relaunch of the Italian factories.
Then, the CEO of Fiat could not fail to address the discourse on procedure for the reduction of personnel by 19 units, launched yesterday in the Pomigliano plant. A decision that follows the sentence of the Court of Appeal of Rome on the re-employment of the 19 workers registered with Fiom who had presented an appeal for discrimination.
Marchionne defended the reasons for his choice, confirming what was written in the note released yesterday by Lingotto, stating that the decision is “totally consistent… There is not enough work, where do I put even one assumption?”, before launching a real attack against Fiom, "unable to adapt to a reality in which the majority wants to work and not be conditioned by the minority", which yesterday through the mouth of the general secretary Maurizio Landini had defined Fiat's decision " An act against the Constitution of our country, illegitimate and serious".
