The discussion between Leonardo and the trade unions concluded positively with the signing today of the Framework Agreement for the management of the cyclical reduction of the workloads of the Aerostructures Division.
The continuation of the pandemic crisis and the impacts generated by it on civil air transport, with consequent repercussions in the aerostructure production sector, have led to a progressive and significant reduction in production volumes for the year 2022 which made it necessary to resort to the instrument of Ordinary redundancy fund. Up to now, this institution had been avoided through management actions and territorial compensation, no longer able, on its own, to guarantee the management of the economic contraction of production.
The CIGO, as an instrument of management flexibility, is currently the most suitable and able to ensure coverage of the days of empty work of the current year while preserving economic-industrial sustainability, also in relation to the financial commitment undertaken by Leonardo. with investments aimed at consolidating the centrality of the aerostructures business through the technological updating of programs and products, plants and production processes.
Lucio Valerio Cioffi - General Manager of Leonardo - commented: "the agreement signed in a unified manner with the trade unions represents a fundamental step for overcoming an economic phase linked to the protracted effects of the pandemic that caused the strongest decline of passenger traffic in the history of civil aviation. Let's move forward - also continuing the discussion with the trade unions - with the plan aimed at the transformation and relaunch of our Aerostructures business in which, between 2019 and 2023, we will have invested over 300 million euros ".
Important investments, which have no equal in Southern Italy, both for the related industries and for Leonardo which, in the Aeronautics, Electronics and Helicopters business sectors, between Campania and Puglia employs about 7.400 resources net of the related industries. Specifically, in Campania, in the production sites of Naples and Giugliano (Electronics), Nola and Pomigliano D'Arco (Aeronautics), Benevento (Helicopters), about 4.400 people work, 57% of the total employed in the high-tech manufacturing of Region.
In Puglia, about 3.000 people work in the production sites of Grottaglie and Foggia (Aerostructures), Brindisi (Helicopters), Taranto (Electronics), 84% of the total employed in the high-tech manufacturing of the Region.
Furthermore, Leonardo, together with its suppliers, generates economic and social value in the area by working to create a quality supply chain and a sustainable path of common growth.
Together with the academic and research world, Leonardo works for an innovation open to the contamination of new ideas by collaborating with the main universities of the Regions in which it is present.