Gamesa de Aoiz: relocation and blackmail of a company
- Aoiz workers from Siemens Gamesa are already mobilised in defence of the 239 jobs that the German-Basque multinational intends to eliminate in order to "improve long-term competitiveness".
The plant will not be closed by the sectoral crisis, the pandemic or low productivity. It is obvious. This is a new movement of this group, which has four other logistics centres in Navarre: two in Arazuri and Pamplona, a training centre in Noáin and one of the main R & D centres and offices in Sarriguren (Egüés Valley). In total, the CAV has 1,400 more jobs than last year.
The decision of the multinational is undoubtedly based on the objective of relocation, with fewer labour, logistical and social costs in another country, in order to improve the profit and loss account. No more and no less.
Gamesa joined Siemens three years ago and received all applause from public administrations as well as their subsidies. As a result of this operation, many of the foreign investments made in Euskal Herria should be questioned, since they receive public money and leave the territory, when they find better conditions to get more benefits.
The workers of Aoiz do well to defend their jobs, and it would be better if all the colleagues of the multinational in Navarre and the rest of the Spanish State were to join them. You know what usually happens: what started in a workshop, how things are going, they go on.
Beware! Sometimes, these capital decisions are also blackmail, in the end, without reaching the complete closure of the company, to reduce jobs and wages, not only in a factory, in this case in Aoiz, but also in the rest of the plants. We will have to pay attention to the strategy of the multinationals: relocation and blackmail.
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