Mondragon leaders talk hard against Ulma and Orona
- Ulma and Orona will vote on December 16 to leave the Mondragon Group, and in the past days, the leaders of Mondragon have launched through the EiTB public media strong messages on the behavior of both cooperatives: "Mondragon is also going to go well without them," said the president of the corporation Iñigo Ucin.
If the atmosphere had already grown, Mondragon has decided to go deeper this week, and interviews have been offered to EiTB – just a few days from the Ulma and Orona group’s exit vote on Friday. This media has given them ample space.
Thus, on Monday, Leire Muguerza was interviewed in the Faktoria program of the Basque Country Irratia. The chairman of the Permanent Commission of the Mondragon Corporation, Orona and Ulma, warned about the consequences of their relationship if they decided to leave the group: "It's not the same to be outside as being inside." According to Muguerza, "the relationship will be the same as we have with other companies."
In addition, Lagun Aro or Mondragon Unibertsitatea explained that the possibility of providing services to these cooperatives will also remain within these entities, as they are "autonomous".
Two days later, the same public media interviewed Iñigo Ucin, president of Mondragon. In 12 minutes of ETB2, Ucine answers the questions of Arantza Ruiz, head of EiTB Media information: "They knew the procedure they were asking for was unacceptable in the short term."
Asked about Mondragon's letter about how the process has been in his internal cooperatives, with which Orona and Ulma have become deeply angry, Ucine explained that everything they have said is "true": "However, everything we have said has always been taken aggressively."
The president of the Mondragon Corporation has acknowledged that the departure of Orona and Ulma will be a great loss and the team will remain in some 70,000 workers, but "without them it will go well", he said.
It follows from the words of the two presidents that Ulma and Orona are going to leave Mondragon almost as accomplished. However, Mondragon continues the campaign so that the image of the group is not damaged. For example, they have hung a video in the TuLankide media in which the words of the members of different cooperatives are collected, explaining why they are in Mondragon.
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