Their production fell in 2021, for the fourth year in a row. The unions are worried.
Carlos Tavares, the managing director of Stellantis who is due to present the 1er March its strategic plan to 2030, will it keep the promise made last April to the Italian unions not to close any Fiat factories and to keep all of its brands? Faced with a devastated European automotive market, the factories inherited from the FCA group saw their production drop (- 6.1% in 2021) for the fourth consecutive year, to only 673,574 vehicles against more than 1 million in 2017.
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After rebounding 15% in the first half of the year, the relapse was triggered by the semiconductor shortage. “The Stellantis factories in Italy are in a critical situation, explains Ferdinando Uliano, secretary of the Fim-Cisl union. Short-time working is being used massively everywhere, and even more so since the shortage of semiconductors which caused us to lose nearly 100,000 sales, customers having grown tired of waiting.“A shortage that should continue in 2022. These are the two largest factories of the group …
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