A release date for the pivotal moment at Ford Almussafes has been set for the future days ahead. The multinational company has summoned the plant’s majority union, UGT, to a meeting that was promised weeks ago and is happening today. The agenda centers on detailing how electrification will arrive at the facility and, simultaneously, what alternative manufacturing activity will be launched to keep the workforce fully utilized until electric vehicles are produced. The meeting will feature leaders from the global corporate leadership of Ford and the plant’s works council chair and UGT leader in Almussafes, Carlos Faubel, and it will take place in Dunton, England. (Source: Ford Almussafes internal communications)
The outcome of this gathering is seen as crucial. In the near future, the Valencia plant will lose the European Transit van version, a development that currently leaves the Kuga as the only model with a clear survival path on the horizon. In this context, news confirming positive steps that bolster the factory’s fabrication capacity have grown increasingly necessary. (Source: Ford Almussafes internal communications)
Erte and Perte
Beyond the meeting itself, there has been a recent approval of the temporary layoff plan in effect at the plant since mid-February, driven by reduced production on Almussafes’ assembly lines. This Erte is extended beyond the originally agreed date of March 28. It is also anticipated that a short time from now will reveal the amount of support allocated by the Ministry of Industry to Ford under the Perte VEC II financing line. Those funds will join the 37 million euros already agreed for a battery assembly plant. (Source: Ford Almussafes internal communications)