Volkswagen Navarra

The Volkswagen Navarra factory is picking up production pace with the launch of the first electric models and a demand that has led the German automaker to increase shifts and personnel to cope. The president of the Works Council of the Navarran plant, Alfredo Morales, has therefore expressed his satisfaction with the start of the temporary hiring process for some 1,200 additional workers to take on this added production of the new electric vehicles, a boost from the German multinational to the Navarran plant that contrasts with the savings warnings issued for other factories of the group.

"It's great news," Morales said in statements to Efe, in which he attributed this extra additional hiring to the immense work of the entire workforce that "has made this a very profitable factory." He explained that the new hires will cover an additional weekend shift, which will be from Friday to Sunday, with a total of 28 additional hours. This shift will be covered by 10 or 15% with voluntary staff from the workforce, but the rest, up to about 1,200 people, will be hired. Around 700 operators are sought for the assembly line and another 500 with some specialization, such as "engineers, and with Vocational Training in the field of robotics, mechatronics, and automotive electricity.

Also bodybuilders and production managers." Once the selection process is completed, which has already begun through external companies, there will be a specific training period at the factory of about three months, until approximately December. The contracts will be temporary for six months, plus another six months extendable, although Morales has not ruled out that in the future the structural volume of assigned cars could be expanded - more than 340,000 units by the year 2027 - which would make their continuity necessary. "We are going to put a lot of effort into it, but for now they are for one year," warned Morales, who did not overlook the problems occurring in the German multinational, whose CEO, Oliver Blume, already pointed out in a meeting with workers in Wolfsburg that savings measures are necessary.

Therefore, the president of the VW Navarra Works Council has extended to all Landaben personnel the responsibility for the management in Germany having increased the production volume in Pamplona. Therefore, he stressed that the increase in production and temporary staff "is logically great news.