Industry
The workers of Tubos Reunidos in Amurrio are on a 24-hour strike today, when the works council will hold a meeting with the Basque institutions
The works councils of the factories of Amurrio and Valle de Trápaga will meet with the officials of the Basque Government and the Diputación Foral de Álava from 09:00 in Lakua, so they will concentrate on the Lakua portal.
Volkswagen Navarra will make 93 permanent workers and reject the ERE
The management has signed an agreement with UGT and CCOO to comply with the 2026 production programme, which is expected to produce 262,217 vehicles this year.
Ramiro Gonzalez: "The first step is undoubtedly debt restructuring, where the SEPI has a function."
The General Representative of Álava, Ramiro González, has stated that the continuity of Tubos Reunidos requires the active involvement of creditors, especially the State Company for Industrial Participation (SEPI). "The company burns almost five million euros a month", he has stressed.
Bengoetxea believes that to ensure the viability of Tubos Reunidos "debt restructuring is necessary"
Interviewed on the radio programme "Faktoria" by Euskadi Irratia, the Vice-President of the Basque Government and Counsellor for Culture and Linguistic Policy, Ibone Bengoetxea, has stated that in this restructuring of the debt the Government will be "travelling partner".
The Vital Foundation has added 10 million to the Basque consortium for the purchase of Ayesa Digital
The operation strengthens the return to the Basque Country of the former Ibermatic decision-making centre and provides for the creation of qualified employment in Álava.
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The Tubos Reunion Committee in Amurrio has rejected the indefinite strike and agreed on a calendar of mobilizations
Workers met this Tuesday to discuss how to deal with the 301 redundancies announced by the company.
President Pradales has urged all actors to "row in the same direction" to support Tubos Reunidos
President Imanol Pradales has described Tubos Reunidos as a "reference" company in a key sector such as the decarbonization of the economy and the energy transition, and has stressed that it must remain so in the future. "To overcome the situation we must all row in the same direction: management, workers, suppliers, creditors and institutions," he added.
"Despite the tariffs, it's been a good year for the machine tool."
Xabier Ortueta, director of AFM Cluster, has stated that "this year, in demand, the US has been our first market, we have received 22% of the orders from there." "The situation is difficult to manage, but we have handled it well because they have a great need for machine tools," added Ortueta.
The workers of Tubos Reunidos will meet this afternoon to decide on the next steps
In the morning there will be a meeting of the staff delegates who make up the works council to prepare for the afternoon meeting. The management has informed the workers of its intention to lay off 301 workers (274 in Amurrio and 27 in Trapagaran) and close the Amurrio steelworks.
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Chief Executive Mikel Jáuregui is committed to public-private investment to ensure the survival of Reunited Tubes
Industria, Counsellor for Energy Transition and Sustainability, has expressed concern about the company's debt, stressing the need to restructure the debt in order to ensure its sustainability.
Basurko is committed to a future industrial project for Reunited Tubes that will have as little impact as possible on employment
The unions point out that the follow-up to the first rounds of the Tubos Reunion strike in Amurrio has been "complete"
The workers have been concentrated again since 7 a.m. in the vicinity of the Alavesa factory, where they will remain until the end of the scheduled meetings between the workers' representatives and the company, at which time they will report on the number of workers affected by the ERE.
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According to Mikel Jauregi, the Tubos Reunidos solution must be "viable" and the restructuring "long-term"
The Minister of Industry, Energy Transition and Sustainability of the Basque Government has advocated on Radio Euskadi to seek among all the agents the true viability of Tubos Reunidos and to "complete an industrial project of the future" that will maintain industrial activity in Amurrio and Trapagaran, although he has acknowledged that debt is a major problem and that "the situation is complicated".
Iñaki Lopez de Gandasegi, founder of Aernova, dies
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The unions estimate that there will be at least 130 redundancies in Tubos Reunidos if the ERE is ratified
The Amurrio and Trapagaran Works Councils have met at the Bizkaia plant to establish a common position before the first meeting with the management on 9 February.
Balenciaga shipyard workers will return to work this Monday
The Zumaia shipyard will henceforth operate under the command of the Arab group Abu Dhabi Ports. In December the workers and the Arab group closed the sale agreement . The agreement provides for a 5% wage cut and freezing for the next three years.