• Cádiz The Airbus crisis is primed with Puerto Real

The multinational

Airbus

has not finally brought to the union meeting in Toulouse (France) the final - and official - decision of what it intends to do with the

Puerto Real

plant

after having announced the intention to close the factory of its commercial division by not considering it competitive.

The issue has not been addressed in Toulouse.

This absence of information has been interpreted as a

temporary oxygen balloon

by the workers of the Cadiz plant, who have called off the lockdown that they had called this Wednesday. This is how

Alejandro González

, a member of the Airbus Puerto Real works council for the CCOO union,

has interpreted it

. In statements to Efe, González stressed that "we bought time, a little air to be able to continue with the negotiations. It is not to party because the problem persists, the party is not won and we must continue negotiating."

Noon started in the Bay of Cádiz with the concentration of the 400 workers of Airbus Puerto Real at the factory gates, with all of them holding their breath while the meeting between the management of the multinational and the European committee was held in France. worker representatives. Before the end of the meeting, held telematically, the president of the factory's works council,

Juan Manuel Trujillo

, informed the workers that Francisco San José, one of the five representatives of Airbus Spanish workers who has participated by videoconference, He anticipated that the European giant has not made "any announcement of any closure of centers or job destruction."

But neither has he argued otherwise. Therefore, it is "a contained joy, things are not clarified. It means that they have thought about it. And when the multinational thinks about it, it gives rise to looking for another way out. It is like when you think that you are going to be killed and makes him happy because they only amputate his arm ".

Trujillo has stated that they have learned that at the meeting held in Toulouse that "there will continue to be an opportunity for dialogue and negotiation under the axiom that no Airbus plant will be closed nor will employment be lost in the Airbus group in Spain ". In statements to journalists, Trujillo pointed out that this was "an element that has been claimed for more than a year in the conclusion of defending and maintaining the

aerospace sector

, the industry in this country."

The union leader has pointed out that now "we must continue to buy time to recover the demand for the more than 7,000 aircraft pending delivery in the civil part, maintain the plants and employment while that recovery arrives and the commitment that now is the time to reach agreements ".

The Puerto Real plant went into crisis before the coronavirus pandemic with the suspension, in 2019, of the A-380. The Puerto Real factory was in charge of manufacturing the horizontal stabilizer for the

largest European plane

, a failed project that for the Cadiz factory meant taking over a 40-meter piece that accounted for almost eighty percent of its workload.

Miguel Velázquez

, state general secretary of the UGT union section of Airbus Puerto Real, highlighted to EL MUNDO that, with the crisis, Airbus had not proposed any closure of any European plant, only for Puerto Real.

The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, has described as "pleasant news" that the directors of the highest authority of Airbus "have said that there will be no closure of any plant" of the aeronautical consortium in the autonomous community, not in Puerto Real (Cádiz), because "we are not now to lose a single job in Andalusia".

The regional president has declared that "there will continue to be an

opportunity for dialogue

and negotiation under the axiom that no Airbus plant will be closed nor will any job in the Airbus group in Spain be lost." Along these lines, the president stressed that the aeronautical and aerospace sector is "completely strategic in Andalusia", where "there is a lot of ancillary industry, and we are not now to lose a single job in Andalusia", as he remarked.

The

social and political pressure

against the closure has been high since days ago. Last Monday there was an institutional meeting called by the mayor of Puerto Real, the socialist 

Elena Amaya

, which was attended by the Minister of Economy and Employment, 

Rogelio Velasco,

the deputy delegate of the Government in Cádiz, 

José Pacheco

, the delegate of the Government of the Junta in Cádiz,

 Ana Mestre

, the president of the Provincial Council, 

Irene García

, as well as the mayors of the Bay of Cádiz, of all political signs.

Likewise, numerous cultural personalities have shown their rejection on social networks of the closure of a plant that is a very hard blow to an area severely hit by unemployment and industrial reconversions.

Alejandro Sanz, Niña Pastori and Manuel Carrasco

have been some who have not hesitated to upload videos to their social networks in support of the maintenance of the factory and the jobs.

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