Stellantis, trade unions call for urgent meeting with CEO Filosa

They call for an urgent meeting with the new CEO of Stellantis, Antonio Filosa, 'to discuss the relaunch of production, employment, research and development in the group's Italian plants'. The metalworkers' unions are knocking at the door of the new number one, who has been at the helm of the group for not even a quarter, grappling with what appears to be a decisive round with Brussels on the possible revocation of the CO2 emissions regulation, at the table on 12 September, and with the not inconsiderable unknowns of the new industrial plan to be presented by the first quarter of 2026.

The production volume situation in Italy takes us back to the 1950s, with a forecast of 250,000 cars being produced by 2025, worse than the ... produced last year, an already very complicated year. According to the estimate of the Fim-Cisl, one out of every two workers in the car assembly plants - and also considering the Termoli plant - are involved in solidarity contracts. At the moment, the Enti Centrali and the diesel engine factory at Pratola Serra do not have any social shock absorbers.

"The group's workers and component workers are paying the price for the failure of the Tavares plan and this is unbearable. Unanimously we have sent a request for an urgent meeting to Stellantis CEO Filosa. The situation of Stellantis in our country is getting worse and worse. Production is collapsing, the use of social shock absorbers is increasing, employment is falling, but above all, there are no prospects for research, development and production," emphasise Michele De Palma, Fiom-Cgil general secretary, and Samuele Lodi, Fiom-Cgil national secretary and head of the mobility sector, in a joint note.

For Ferdinando Uliano, secretary general of Fim-Cisl, 'the situation of the Italian factories is turning out to be even more negative in this 2025, with the massive recourse to redundancy funds affecting all the production sites and involving an average of 50% of the workers. In the light of these data, a revision of the industrial plan of the Italian factories is increasingly urgent in the light of the significant deterioration of production volumes'.

'We want to be able to confront each other before the new industrial plan is launched, to expose the point of view of the Italian workers who are now heavily affected by the redundancy fund and, above all, to imagine the road to a possible relaunch,' the Uilm general secretary, Rocco Palombella, and the Uilm national secretary for the automotive sector, Gianluca Ficco, then explain.