Re: NOTICIAS GRUPO FIAT-CHRYSLER: UNIFICADAS
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En resumen: Fiat tendría mejores resultados sin las plantas italianas que pierden dinero.
MILAN (Reuters) --
Fiat S.p.A. would perform better without its money-losing Italian plants, CEO Sergio Marchionne said.
Not a single euro of the 2 billion euros of trading profit that Fiat is targeting for 2010 will come from Italy, where all Fiat passenger-car plants are loss-making, Marchionne told the television program Che tempo che fa on Sunday.
"Fiat would do more if it took Italy out from its results. We cannot continue to manage operations at a loss forever," Marchionne said.
Marchionne has clashed with domestic unions after engaging in an unprecedented battle to improve productivity at Fiat that may have repercussions for Italy's whole rigid industrial system.
He has pledged to invest 20 billions euros ($27.83 billion) in Italy if it gets more labor flexibility at five Italian car factories, which all together cannot match the productivity of Fiat's single Polish plant
Fiat, which owns 20 percent of Chrysler Group, surprised analysts last week as it upgraded its 2010 guidance for trading profit well above forecasts. A Fiat, trading profit is earnings before interest, taxes and one-time gains or losses. Yet, Italy will not contribute to Fiat's expected profit.
Marchionne plans to close Fiat's Termini Imerese plant in Sicily and he has won backing from a majority of workers at the company's Pomigliano D'Arco plant near Naples to introduce some landmark changes to the national labor contract. However one key union opposes the plans.
If the new working agreement is implemented, Fiat will manufacture its new Panda minicar at the Pomigliano D'Arco plant.
As he tries to introduce more labor flexibility, Marchionne has also proposed to reduce the time allotted for breaks at Italy's Melfi car plant, in exchange for financial compensation.
All of these proposed changes are part of the so-called Fabbrica Italia (Factory Italy) project, Marchionne's vision to put Fiat's industrial system at par with European peers.
"The real problem is not the reduction of the time allowed for breaks, the real problem is competitiveness," Marchionne said in the television interview.
"Our proposal aims to give Italy, and Fiat, the ability to compete with neighboring countries," he added, promising workers' salaries would rise along with efficiency.
Marchionne is facing resistance from Fiom -- a key, left-leaning union which opposes the plans.
Marchionne speaks "as if Fiat were a foreign multinational that has to decide if wants to invest in Italy," Giorgio Airaudo, in charge of the car sector for Fiom, said in reaction to the CEO's comments on Sunday.