- Laboral.Airbus announces the dismissal of 630 employees in Spain
Hundreds of workers at Airbus plants in Spain have started this Friday a round of protest protests over the restructuring plan announced by the company, which plans to fire 2,362 people in the Defense and Space division in Europe, 630 of them in Spain.
These mobilizations in the plants of Seville, Cádiz, Getafe (Madrid) and Illescas (Toledo) are the preamble of the ones they will do in June, when the layoffs have been finalized and the negotiation begins, once the European period is over of union consultations.
The impact of this personnel cut in each of the centers of the European manufacturer could be realized in a next meeting with the director of Airbus Spain, Alberto Gutiérrez , convened for March 3.
The unions demand that before the stagnation of sales of the A400M military transport aircraft , the company distributes workload of the civil area in the different factories in Europe.
In addition, they ask the Ministries of Defense and Industry and the State Society of Industrial Participations (SEPI), which is the Spanish shareholder of Airbus, to agree on an industrial plan with workload and job guarantee.
The Minister of Industry, Reyes Maroto , said Friday that the Government will meet with Airbus and with the unions so that no job is lost and recalled that Spain will enter the future FCAS (Future Combat Air Sistem) program in the future European fighter plane, which it believes can guarantee the present and future of the company.
In Andalusia there have been concentrations in the factories of Airbus Defensa de Tablada and San Pablo, in Seville, and the Bahía de Cádiz Center, in El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz), where the workers' representatives have claimed the central government and the Junta de Andalucía that urgently present strategic plans to guarantee the future of the aviation industry.
about 12,600 employees in Spain
The vice president of the European Airbus committee and CCOO leader in the San Pablo factory, Julián Tierno , has taken for granted that this plant, where around 2,000 people work, will be the most affected, with up to 200 casualties , due to its greater exposure to the A400M program, which is awarded the greatest losses of the Airbus Defense division.
In addition, the dismissals would aggravate the difficulties that are already going through the aeronautical auxiliary contracts , so it demands the multinational more civil workload, which would serve to shield the three centers of Andalusia.
In the Port of Santa Maria, the almost 500 workers of the Airbus center, specialized in military aircraft, have stopped the activity. The president of the works council in this plant, Pedro Miguel Sánchez (CCOO) has trusted that, at least, the dismissals can be transformed into early retirement, transfers or low incentives in the negotiation process.
In Getafe, a thousand people have concentrated at the factory doors behind a banner under the slogan "There is no one left here" and blowing horns and whistles.
The president of the Committee Interempresas of Airbus in Spain, Francisco San José, has said that the cut of staff is "clearly unfair" but the most serious thing is that Spain is playing the future of the sector for the next twenty years .
In Illescas (Toledo), where some 870 people work, about 400 workers in the morning shift have seconded the half-hour strike, followed by another in the afternoon shift, because although initially the dismissals will affect the Defense and Espacio and Illescas are focused on the commercial division, the restructuring plan "is a consequence of the state of health of the aeronautical sector," according to the unions.
Airbus has about 12,600 employees in Spain , of which 7,560 work in the Defense and Space division (60% of the total); another 4,410 appear in the commercial aircraft division (35%) and the remaining 630 in the helicopter division (5 percent).
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