The full session of the General Board of the Principality of Asturias has given the green light this Friday to an institutional declaration, previously agreed upon in the Spokespersons’ Board, regarding the situation of the Santa Bárbara Sistemas facilities in Asturias. Through this agreement, the Government of Spain and the Ministry of Defence are urged to “with the greatest urgency possible” drive forward the necessary measures to launch the Chain Support Vehicle (VAC) program at the Trubia plant.
In the text, “the strategic importance” of these facilities is highlighted “for the Asturian industrial fabric, both for their productive and technological capacity and for their contribution to employment and economic development”.
The Asturian Chamber conveys its concern about the delays accumulated in the activation of the Chain Support Vehicle Program, warning that “successive delays in its launch are generating a growing” uncertainty “about the evolution of productive activity and stability in employment” at a plant that “has a workforce of approximately 730 workers”, a figure that increases significantly when the business network linked to its value chain is taken into account.
The institution emphasizes that, while it is essential that “pending technical, economic and administrative matters are resolved with the rigor and guarantees required,” it is also necessary to do so “with the utmost diligence,” considering that “the progressive completion of other industrial programs may lead to situations of reduced activity that affect the stability of the factory and its auxiliary industry”.
Likewise, the General Board finds it “especially appropriate” that the necessary decisions for its launch can be adopted before the next election date, preventing that “the timeframes derived from the formation of a new Government” cause further delays in a project described as “of great importance for the industrial and labor future of the Principality of Asturias”.
In its final statement, the Asturian Chamber reiterates “its commitment to defending industrial employment in Asturias, maintaining the productive capacities of the Trubia factory, and the institutional collaboration necessary to provide uncertainty and stability for its workers and female and male workers, as well as for the entire set of auxiliary companies linked”.
On the other hand, this Friday’s plenary session has begun with a minute of silence, observed by all the Members of Parliament as a gesture of condemnation for the murder of a woman that occurred this Thursday in Gijón.