On Thursday, September 7, the Ministry of Economy met with Volkswagen and the two associations that represent the automobile sector: AFIA (components) and ACAP (producers and marketers). “It was a working meeting,” an official source from António Costa Silva’s office told the Observer, without making further comments. But for Negócios, Costa Silva says it was “very constructive.”
It was a meeting, as the Minister of Economy had already said, to try to bring Autoeuropa closer to the component suppliers, with the expectation that an alternative could be found for the purchase of the element that Volkswagen acquires from a Slovenian company and that had to stop production due to flooding in the country. With this, Autoeuropa announced the paralysis of the Palmela factory for nine weeks, advancing to the ERTE regime during this period, although the company undertakes to cover part of the salary loss that this entails.
The agreement in Autoeuropa foresees a loss of 5% of salaries due to the closure
To Jornal de Negócios, the Minister of Economy summarized Thursday’s meeting as “important and very constructive”, guaranteeing that he saw “availability of all parties to work more closely and together.” Costa Silva tells the same newspaper that “what was established were contact channels between Autoeuropa and our components industry to work together not only now, on this short-term problem, but fundamentally in the medium and long term to incorporate more of our components industry. in everything that is the national productive system.”
Source: Observadora
