“In motoring jargon, it’s called something like this: We will not give back, but we will shift to a lower speed, which is, however, full of strength,” the unions write in the company weekly. Skoda trade unionist.
This week, the plants in Mladá Boleslav and Kvasiny did not produce cars on Mondays and Tuesdays. In addition, the night shift from Tuesday to Wednesday was canceled at assembly plants, welding shops and paint shops in Mladá Boleslav. According to the unions, in the next calendar week, the carmaker’s Czech plants will not produce, with a few exceptions, practically the whole week. The company wants to use the suspended production in the factories for the company’s inventory and also for the completion of tens of thousands of unfinished cars, which currently stand in parking lots.
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Employees who are afraid that the company will not have a job for them are afraid of limiting production until the end of the year. Skoda employs over 35,000 people in the Czech Republic and the average gross salary in the company exceeds 50,000 crowns per month.
According to unions, the company is planning major personnel changes from November 1. “Please do not confuse this with the dismissal,” emphasizes Jaroslav Povšík, head of the Škoda departments. He was a guest of the morning podcast of the daily E15. “The mood in the races is down,” he said.
According to Povšík, the so-called reduced standard of service will be prepared from 1 November. The company wants to make the most of the natural fluctuations of regular and agency workers. For example, employees for whom the carmaker does not have a job in their original position will be moved to the vacancies.
“Any overhang of regular employees will, if necessary, be resolved by transfers between individual operations, primarily within the given plant, and, if necessary, also between individual plants in Mladá Boleslav, Kvasiny and Vrchlabí,” the unions state.
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The trade unionists state that in the past, even when the staff was overheated, dozens of buses transported employees from Vrchlabí to Mladá Boleslav, from Vrchlabí to Kvasin and also from Kvasin to Mladá Boleslav. Employees who will not be used in the car company will be assigned to so-called overhang centers, which will figure out what kind of work to assign to them. Among other things, the company will reduce overtime.
Škoda Auto’s problems affect a number of supplier companies. The company Kasko from Slavkov in the Uherské Hradiště region, which produces plastic parts mainly for the automotive industry, for example, had to stop production for two weeks and leave some employees at home for 60 percent of their wages. Škoda itself also leaves some employees at home in so-called obstacles and pays them 80 percent of their wages.
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The total production of domestic cars this year will be at the level of last year’s 1.15 million cars, which is a fifth less than in 2019 and 150 thousand less than originally assumed in the middle of the year. The expected increase was offset by the announced reduction in production due to a lack of chips, especially in Škoda Auto, which has a two-thirds market share. This was stated last week by representatives of the Association of the Automotive Industry.
Last year, Škoda Auto delivered over one million cars worldwide. It operates three production plants in the Czech Republic, produces in China, Russia, Slovakia and India, mostly through group partnerships, as well as in Ukraine and Kazakhstan in cooperation with local partners. It is active in more than 100 markets.
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