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Caoa de Jacareí workers approve lay-off to avoid layoffs

Workers at Caoa Chery de Jacareí (SP), approved in a meeting this Friday morning (6) a lay-off program (temporary suspension of contracts) as an alternative to the company’s intention to dismiss most of the 623 employees of the plant. , with payment of extra compensation.

THE CNN Brasil Business confirmed the information with the Metalworkers Union of São José dos Campos and Region.

On Thursday (5), the automaker announced that the factory will be closed until 2025 to be prepared to produce only hybrid and electric vehicles in the resumption of its operations.

The Tiggo 3 Pro, made at the unit, will be discontinued and the Azzira 6 sedan will be imported from China.

Under the approved proposal, workers will be on lay-off for five months and there will be three months of job stability after that period.

In the lay-off, workers normally receive about 75% of their salary, and a part is complemented by a federal government program.

The measure will be discussed with the company’s management at a meeting scheduled for next Tuesday (10). According to the president of the Metalworkers Union of São José dos Campos e Região, Weller Gonçalves, on Thursday afternoon representatives of Caoa Chery accepted the alternative.

After the assembly, the workers marched to the City Hall headquarters, which donated the land for the company to settle in the city, where the factory opened in 2015.

At that time, Chery belonged entirely to a Chinese group, and later had half of the shares sold to the Brazilian company Caoa, which also has a factory in Anápolis (GO), where production will be maintained.

Strike at Renault

This Friday morning, Renault workers in São José dos Pinhais (PR), decided to go on strike for an indefinite period, asking for changes in the form of payment of Profit Sharing (PLR). The factory employs around 5,000 workers, according to the Greater Curitiba Metalworkers Union.

According to the entity, the proposed value for the PLR ​​this year, of R$ 15.4 thousand, “is outside the reality of the company’s business, which increased the price of the car by more than 30% in two years”.

The strike, informs the entity, is also motivated by the reduction of the staff by 2 thousand employees from 2020, even if the majority by Voluntary Dismissal Programs (PDV).

The manufacturer claims that the collective bargaining agreement, approved at a meeting held by the Union on August 11, 2020, has a duration of four years, valid until August 2024.

“Renault has complied with the collective agreement in its entirety and is open to dialogue. On May 3, the company proposed a calendar of meetings with the Union, starting on May 9,” the company said in a statement.

At the Renault complex, Duster, Captur, Kwid, Sandero, Logan, Oroch and Master models and engines are produced.

Source: CNN Brasil

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