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Fiat and the Italian Unions to Meet the Economics Minister

The Italian minister of economics summoned Fiat and its four unions to a Rome meeting in an attempt to settle the conflict which started when the Italian automaker announced it will close its Termini Imerese plant in Sicily, says just-auto.com.

The minister hopes to find a solution in order to terminate the strikes the unions started across Fiat plants across the country. The automaker has serious arguments for closing the plant and moving the Lancia Ypsilon production to Poland: according to the company, no less than EUR1,000 are lost per car. The unions, on the other hand, want to avoid job losses.

"We know the company says it loses money on every car," a spokesman for the Fiom-Cgil union told just-auto from Italy. "In 2007 Fiat said its plan was to make the Termini plant bigger to more or less 5,000 people.

"At Termini there is only the assembly line but the components are produced elsewhere for the Ypsilon - this is why the cost is high. The union would like the components to be produced in Sicily."


The Fiom-Cgil said that the Rome meeting was the first one and that there will be several to come. The talks are meant to stress the economic importance of the Termini plant to the island of Sicily.

"It is very complex because there is the economic crisis, the future of the automotive industry and its global shape. There is also the crisis in the southern part of Italy,"
he said.
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