After some unfortunate months for the automotive sector, the factory of Volkswagen in Landaben (Navarra) seems to be entering a promising period. The company will re-introduce the third shift starting next Monday August 24, thus recovering the more than 600 workers that remained in the ERTE, and also the firm contemplates an increase in the volume of manufacturing until the end of the year.
This increase will foreseeably be included in the new productive program that the brand is preparing for the factory. It would reflect an increase in production and the displacement of employee breaks, so that to make both novelties compatible, they would also have to be carried out new hiring of temporary staff.
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These new employees would allow breaks to be sequenced, that is, they would cover the breaks of regular workers allowing production to not stop at any time in order to get up to speed.
Some hopeful news that will be possible “thanks to the good prospects and recovery of sales“, according to informed UGT of Volkswagen Navarra.
Between 150 and 400 new employees to achieve a new push
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The changes, requested from Germany, have been qualified by the union of “extraordinary” given “the context from which we come and in which we find ourselves”.
In any case, for the moment details have not been specified on incorporating pause travel, or how many cars will production increase to, or how many new employees will be hired.
As the Navarra newspaper, it is estimated that the volume of contracting will oscillate “between 150 and 400 people”.
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It should be remembered that the board of directors and the works council signed in April a new ERTE for organizational and productive reasons to the staff before the return to production.
In addition, the factory maintained the closure due to COVID-19 since the middle of last March until April 27, when resumed activity, although at half gas and between great security measures.
On June 3, the second shift of the three that operate normally began, reaching the 1,054 cars manufactured daily: 55% of which corresponded to the model T-Cross and 45% to Volkswagen Polo.
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When all three shifts resume, production is expected to reach 1,438 vehicles per day. However, Volkswagen Navarra has already stopped producing some 66,000 cars as a result of the pandemic, which will put the production volume at the end of this year at around 240,000 units, a figure considerably below the historical barrier of 300,000 that it managed to overcome in 2019.
Despite this, the Volkswagen factory in Landaben is beginning to see the light and look optimistically at a horizon in which further afield can already be glimpsed the Volkswagen Nivus, ** the future SUV of the firm ** that will soon land on the Navarrese production lines.
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