The difficulties in supplying semiconductors and other components have made Seat prepare the application of a new ERTE (Temporary Employment Regulation File) at the Martorell (Barcelona) plant for the remainder of the year, as well as cutting some shifts production, as reported by the UGT and CCOO unions and confirmed by the company to elEconomista.es.
The company has proposed canceling the weekends in September that were scheduled as extraordinary production days, and not enabling the weekends in October either.
It also plans to temporarily dispense with the night production shift – three shifts are currently active – on line 2, the one that manufactures the Seat/Cupra León and the Cupra Formentor, which would affect some 850 daily workers.
Likewise, the ERTE contemplates, if necessary, the possible cancellation of production days in any of the Martorell manufacturing lines.
Negotiations with the unions are expected to start next week, with the intention that excess staff can be managed through voluntary membership, although there is little time frame, because Seat wants to start applying the ERTE as early as mid-September and until on December 23, when the usual productive stoppage for Christmas is planned.
The Martorell car factory, the largest in Spain, has chained several ERTEs since the outbreak of the covid-19, first, and also due to the global shortage of microchips, to which more components affected by the war have been added from Ukraine.
The Seat factory has maintained its normal activity this week and has been working in August even with some additional shifts to recover part of the production lost in previous months, reports Efe.
From the subsidiary of the Volkswagen group they stress that the demand for the Seat and Cupra models “is at very high levels and the company will continue to do everything possible to deliver this high demand to dealers and customers”, who currently must wait more than half a year to receive your vehicle.
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