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Cut - Spain - Layoff threat by Seat is serious, unions say
MADRID, Spain -The Detroit News (Detroit,Mich,USA) -9 Nov 2005: -- When automaker Seat SA, a subsidiary of Germany's Volkswagen, threatened to suspend 415 workers last year, management and unions were negotiating a new contract and the threat evaporated after a deal was reached. Now Seat is planning actual layoffs _ 1,346 of them, or 8 percent of the work force _ and unions say this time it is no bluff... "This is a very serious, worrisome issue," said Matias Carnero, a Seat worker who leads the local chapter of the General Workers Union at Seat's facilities in Barcelona. Seat, founded in the 1950s by the Spanish government with help from Italy's Fiat SPA and bought by Volkswagen AG in 1990, announced the cuts Friday... The company said it had failed to reach a deal with unions on how to deal with an excess of workers and had no choice but to lay people off... The Seat group employs around 16,000 people, most of them at a Barcelona manufacturing plant...
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