The difficult moment for Stellantis continues, which this time affects the Mirafiori plant, the historic center of the Turin automotive. From 1 September 2025 to 31 January 2026, over 2,300 employees will be involved by social safety nets and solidarity contracts, confirming a situation that puts thousands of families in difficulty.
The numbers of the employees involved
In detail, the sectors involved will be:
- Bodywork – 500 BET line with 903 workers;
- Bodywork – Maserati line with 674 workers;
- Stellantis Europe of San Benigno (ex-PCma): 300 workers;
- Presse sector: 294 workers;
- Construction of molds: 85 workers;
- Mould Shop of Grugliasco (ex Tea): 41 workers.
Historical Italian plants of Stellantis have already undergone a strong downsizing in recent months. In Termoli, 1,823 workers will remain in solidarity until 2026, while in Pomigliano d’Arco the extraordinary layoffs was extended to another 3,750 employees. In Melfi, in June, almost 4,900 metalworkers underwent a drastic downsizing after a 59%production drop.
A glimmer of hope could come from the Annunciata 500 hybrid, expected in November, which could restore oxygen to Mirafiori. But the doubt remains that only one novelty can reverse this trend.
How to relaunch the sector
The unions have not remained silent and ask for a plan to relaunch the sector and the manufacturing industry. Edi Lazzi, secretary general of the Fiom Cgil of Turin, explains:
The agony of Mirafiori has been continuing for 18 long years now. The factories of the car surface are also extinguishing with her, with dramatic consequences for workers.
At national level, the unions have defined the solidarity contracts announced in recent days as defensive tools. In a unitary press release they specified that the reduction of working hours will be calculated on a monthly basis, with a maximum percentage equal to 80% as an average of the staff involved. It was also underlined that “the percentage of reducing overall working hours for each worker cannot be greater than 90% in the arc of the entire period for which the solidarity contract is stipulated”.
The main union acronyms have opened to the possibility of using the mechanism of the so -called “loans”, that is, detachments and transfers of personnel affected by the solidarity contracts towards other Units of Stellantis Europe or other group companies, subject to evaluation with the RSA. For its part, the company has communicated that it has agreed to anticipate the treatment of wage integration to the employees involved in the suspensions and to guarantee the accrual of the monthly installments provided for by contracts and law.
Bad enrollments also
Since the beginning of 2025, the Italian plants of the former FCA have recorded a production of 223 thousand vehicles, with a drop of 26.9% compared to 2024. Even the registrations are flexed: they were 1,192,746, equal to -8.1%. On the European front, Stellantis lost 1.3% market share, going from 16.4% to 15.1%.
The crisis is also reflected on employment: 20,400 workers, out of a total of 32,745, are today in layoffs or with solidarity contracts. The induced is also affected, which has over 8 thousand companies and about 75 thousand employees, largely in the components sector, linked to the Turin group through orders.
To further complicate the framework, the 6 thousand redundancies declared by the company weigh at the end of 2024. If the numbers will not improve, by the end of 2025 Stellantis will be forced to resort to social safety nets again or forms of accompanying the voluntary exit, in an attempt to avoid direct layoffs.
