Stellantis, Tavares moves on to threats

Even worse. When it seems impossible to reach a low point, the denial is immediate. Let’s get back to talking about Stellantis and the brilliant CEO Carlos Tavareswho a few days ago was the protagonist …

Stellantis, Tavares moves on to threats

Even worse. When it seems impossible to reach a low point, the denial is immediate. Let’s get back to talking about Stellantis and the brilliant CEO Carlos Tavareswho a few days ago was the protagonist in a hearing in Parliament, leaving politics and social partners in total dismay. Yes, because the Portuguese manager has called for other incentives for electric cars, freeing himself from any responsibility for the flop in the company’s numbers. But today a relaunch has arrived, an absurdity on the skin of thousands of workers: guest at the Paris Motor Show, Tavares opened up to the possibility of layoffs. Crazy stuff.

In his speech to the microphones of the reporters present, the CEO of Stellantis did not rule out the job cuts to respond to the crisis affecting the auto sector. “I don’t discard anything”, highlighted the Portuguese manager: “The financial health of Stellantis does not only depend on the elimination of positions but passes through many other things: imagination, intelligence, innovation. Which is what we’re doing.” Immediately afterwards Tavares was keen to clarify that the elimination of jobs “is not at the center of our strategic reflection”.

The rest? The usual supercazzola fair. Among the most emblematic passages: “At the heart of our strategic reflection is making our customers happy, through the quality of our products, through the innovation of our technologies, and through the accessible dimension of our mobility which must be clean”. As if he had never talked about layoffs, as if he hadn’t put the position of thousands of men and women in the balance, already in constant worry about the policies of the multinational.

Also in this case bipartisan attacks. The League’s position was immediate: “The umpteenth, disconcerting, statements by Tavares on possible dismissals make the truth operation on the public billions collected by Stellanti even more urgent and timely. These are rivers of money which – due to the group’s decisions – have produced profits for managers, investments abroad and painful cuts in Italy. It’s a scandal that we will bring out in all its grandeur.” Tranchant, once again, Carlo Calenda: “Tavares doesn’t exclude anything and doesn’t say anything, it’s the equivalent of talking to a rubber puppet. And frankly I’m pissed off, because what we see is a collapse in production, a collapse in employment and Italian models being made abroad.” Updates will follow.

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