No more cars will roll off the production line at Audi Brussels this week. Belga learned this on Wednesday from trade unionist Ronny Liedts (ACV Metea). The car factory in Forest is not receiving parts due to a strike at a supplier. Virtually no cars have been made at Audi Brussels for about four weeks now.
The impending closure of the Brussels car factory will also result in job losses among suppliers. There is no social plan at Imperial Logistics. The staff has stopped working there.
On Wednesday, management and trade unions of Audi Brussels met again to negotiate a social plan. According to Liedts, the atmosphere was “better and quite constructive”. “We were able to exchange views,” said the trade unionist.
Production at Audi Brussels will be stopped at the end of February. Ninety percent of the approximately 3,000 employees will then lose their jobs. The remaining 10 percent, about 300 people, will be deployed indefinitely in a “transition team”. That team will continue to work under Audi Brussels NV and will subsequently be systematically phased out. But those employees will also be covered by the social plan.
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