• Ford Valencia motor announces an ERE for 1,144 employees to focus on electric cars

After several weeks of tug of war, the management of Ford has finally managed on Tuesday to agree with the majority union, UGT, an ERE for its Valencian factory in Almussafes that will affect 1,144 workers of the almost 6,000 that make up the workforce. The key has been in the age of early retirement, which the company has agreed to lower to 53 years with at least 75% of the salary until 62 years.

According to sources of the union, which has highlighted its signature "alone", the agreement reached allows to offer exit plans on a voluntary basis for employees born in 1969 and 1970 and improves the amounts for the incentivized leaves. "We trust that the agreement will serve to solve the enormous problem that means an ERE like this with 100% voluntariness."

Specifically, the agreement also contemplates for employees up to 54 years additional compensation of 40,000 or 20,000 euros gross depending on whether the departure occurs voluntarily before June 30 or before September 30.

The agreement for the ERE comes precisely the month in which the Spanish Ford plant will reduce its production to 1,100 vehicles per day, after saying goodbye to the manufacture of the S-Max and Galaxy models. From now on, practically three out of four vehicles that leave the Almussafes plant will be of the Kuga model. The rest belong to the Transit van, waiting for the management to specify which new electric models will be manufactured in Almussafes.

In fact, the multinational is immersed in the process of restructuring its business in Europe, as a result of the strategy to achieve full electrification by 2035. A reconversion for which there is plenty of labor, as the company itself had warned and the unions feared.

Although Ford has recently announced that it was moving its headquarters from Madrid to Valencia because "Almussafes represents the main headquarters of its operations in Spain", the Valencian plant is not going through its best moment. In Almussafes an ERTE remains in force until June due to the semiconductor crisis and supply problems.

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