Michelin will fire 176 employees in Vitoria and Lasarte due to bad estimates

The management of the Michelin plant in Vitoria-Gasteiz has announced to the unions that the workforce currently has a “surplus” of 150 workers and, on the other hand, the company estimates the need to cut another 26 jobs at the plant. from Lasarte (Guipúzcoa), something that will paralyze import investments of 75 million euros by the company in Vitoria in the next three years.

According to company sources, the multinational Michelin will dismiss those 176 workers – of the nearly 3,500 workers on staff – from its plants due to poor production forecasts for next year. The announcement is communicated after 2023 in which there have been several production adjustments. The last one last November of 3,000 tons less tires until the end of this year.

The management of the company met this Friday with the social part and communicated its production forecast for next year, which would fall by around 5% compared to this year, which has already been “bad”, according to what they have said. Union sources highlighted to Europa Press that manufacturing by 2024 will be “one of the lowest in the last twenty years.”

The unions have regretted that despite the demands they have made in this regard to the management, it has not given them a “concrete” answer on what decision it will adopt regarding these workers, and has informed them that “all possibilities are on table.”

Calendar adjustment

In addition to cutting the workforce, this “extremely low” production has meant that the variable system of adjustments to the workforce’s working hours has reached its “limit.” For this reason, the work calendars of another 650 workers who could see their work hours reduced will be adjusted.