The temporary employment regulation dossier (Erte), which has affected the production of Ford Almussafes factory with varying severity in the last three years, will say its last goodbye on 30 June. Although the multinational company has not made an official decision on the matter, From the majority union of the Valencia factory –UGT– It is assumed that this process will end this week. After the file follow-up meeting this Monday All pauses set for this week will be eliminated in both vehicle and engine operations. With this decision, the pauses in the calendar came to naught.
Because, in particular, the oval company has decided to eliminate the four-day fully productive stop of new vehicles – from this Tuesday to next Friday – and the resisting stop day in engine operations (Friday 30 June). . as described Carlos Faubel, head of the works council and head of the gestist center at the factory, said a few weeks later that the company was “postponing the Postpone days towards the end of the semester to see what happens”.finally this Monday it was communicated that “parts are available and can be produced any day”.
Faced with this scenario without supply issues, Faubel The current file, which has a final horizon this Friday if not renewed, will not “continue” after this 30 June. “we closed because the company didn’t tell us anything. “We are not planning to renew it,” he said.
end a problem
Ending the process will mean putting an end to one of the factory’s biggest problems since March 2020. Not in vain, more or less missing parts have been fixed. a constant that hits a factory’s production lines hard produced more than 245,000 vehicles last year. Now added to this improvement in supply chains is that, in Faubel’s words, manufacturing is “adapting” to Ford Almussafes’ new reality, with outputs from the ERE agreed last April.
These layoffs were the main reason why two of the four models still resisting the factory, such as the S-Max and Galaxy minivans, ended up productive, as the company emphasized at the time. This Only the Transit Connect remains in production at the factory – the only Kuga that will in principle resist an upcoming electrification in at least 2027 – and is scheduled to bid farewell next spring.
With these reorganizations, the Ugetista leader explains: Production system A -Kuga- will be retained in the future for both morning and afternoon shifts, while system B -Transit- will only have morning shifts.