Carlos Tavares, CEO of the automotive group Stellantis, has brought in 200 employees from its factories in the Naples region to strengthen its workforce at its global spare parts center in Vesoul, Haute-Saône.
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The reason for this crossing of the Alps?
The global shortage of semiconductors, which is hitting the Franco-Italian manufacturer hard.
Some of its factories have had to reduce their activity, or are at a standstill, such as those in Vienna, Austria, Renne, Ille-et-Vilaine, or Eisenach, Germany.
Others, on the other hand, continue to run at full speed, like that of Vesoul.
"Solidarity between sites"
The Vesoul site employed 500 temporary workers, of whom 200 were coming to the end of their contract. The management has decided not to renew them, and to replace them with 200 employees from its shutdown Italian factories. Some of them are in Vesoul until December 31, others until June. To increase its contingent, Stellantis has also dispatched to the site not far from a hundred employees from its sites in Mulhouse and Sochaux. According to the manufacturer, the other 300 temporary workers have been retained. But Stellantis swears it, the objective is not to resort to cheaper labor: it is a question of showing
"solidarity between sites"
,to prevent transferred employees from losing their jobs due to the temporary closure of the sites where they were initially assigned.
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"You wanted to see Vesoul, we saw Vesoul"
Vesoul, and after?
The Italian employees of the group will they, as in the song of Jacques Brel, still look elsewhere?
The CGT section of the Vesoul site did not fail to react to this decision by Stellantis, calling it a "
real scandal
".
The arrival of its cross-border workers raises the question of how far the management of the group, which has factories in Poland, will push this logic.