{"id":1267933,"date":"2022-02-03T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1267933"},"modified":"2022-02-03T10:39:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T15:39:07","slug":"electric-car-transition-puts-73000-jobs-at-risk-in-italy-unions-and-lobby-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/electric-car-transition-puts-73000-jobs-at-risk-in-italy-unions-and-lobby-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Car Transition Puts 73,000 Jobs at Risk in Italy, Unions and Lobby Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felectric-car-transition-puts-73000-jobs-at-risk-in-italy-unions-and-lobby-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1267933&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/rsz_gettyimages-103634144.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>MILAN (Reuters)\u2014The transition to electric vehicles will put around 73,000 jobs at risk in<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Italy<\/span>, metal workers&#8217; unions and a lobby group said on Thursday, calling on the government to start discussions on measures to support the automotive industry.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts say the auto sector in<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Italy&nbsp;<\/span>could be hit harder than elsewhere because of the small average size of firms in the country and the scale of investment needed to comply with the European Union&#8217;s &#8220;Fit-For-55&#8221; climate plan phasing out combustion engines by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This plan, if not accompanied by (government) intervention, could lead to a loss of approximately 73,000 jobs in<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Italy<\/span>, with 63,000 in the 2025 to 2030 period,&#8221; employers&#8217; group Federmeccanica and the FIM, FIOM and UILM unions said in a rare joint statement.<\/p>\n<p>They said vehicle production in<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Italy&nbsp;<\/span>fell from over 1.8 million units in 1997 to 700,000 last year, including fewer than 500,000 cars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to go back to producing some 1.5 million units a year,&#8221; FIOM&#8217;s head Francesca Re David said.<\/p>\n<p>The automotive industry in<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Italy&nbsp;<\/span>employs 278,000 workers directly and indirectly and accounts for around 6% of the country&#8217;s gross domestic product, according to data from automotive association ANFIA.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Industry Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said he would present proposals in the coming weeks for incentives to support the Italian automotive industry.<\/p>\n<p>Unions are also urging the government to strike a final agreement with Stellantis, the largest carmaker in the country, to build a battery making plant to supply the production of electrified vehicles in<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Italy<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares said last year the group would build one of its European battery plants in Termoli, in central<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Italy<\/span>, but a deal with Rome has not been signed yet.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Giulio Piovaccari; Editing by Mark Potter)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN (Reuters)\u2014The transition to electric vehicles will put around 73,000 jobs at risk in\u00a0Italy, metal workers&#8217; unions and a lobby group said on Thursday, calling on the government to start &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}