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Five months after announcing the closure of the São Bernardo do Campo plant, Ford begins to put into practice the layoff plan negotiated with the union
The end of the Fiesta production line left the Ford factory, in the city of São Bernardo do Campo, idle and the result of this was an agreement between the automaker and the workers' union for layoffs to take place.
About 750 employees will be laid off later this month and will join another 280 who are leaving because they are in the process of retirement or voluntary resignation.
Ford currently has 1700 jobs, but part of them work on the truck assembly line, whose closure is scheduled for October 31st.
The administrative workforce is also included in this group, and as already announced in February during the announcement of the plant closure, a part of this workforce will remain in the company.
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The company's proposals
Ford has made two proposals to the employees, both approved in the assembly, in the first one, the employees would leave the factory and receive two wages per year of work.
In the other proposal, employees who chose to wait for a possible sale of the company to another company would receive 1,5 salaries per year at home.
The government of the state of São Paulo even gave hope to the employees, saying that it was intermediating the negotiation of the sale of the factory with two possible buyers, but the negotiations did not go ahead.
The workers began to have hopes of keeping their jobs in a new company when the government of the State of São Paulo presented itself as an intermediary in negotiations that would be under way with two interested parties.
The Caoa group, which in Brazil controls the Hyundai and Chery brands, would be one of those interested and now that the closure of the Ford factory becomes a concrete possibility, the union is trying to negotiate a more advantageous compensation package for its affiliates.
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