In Barcelos, the Gabor shoe company advances for another collective dismissal. It is the second in the space of two months. This time it covers more than 220 workers. The German multinational justifies the decision with the “economic context of ordering crisis and accumulation and excess of stocks.”
The dismissal letters reached the hands of 222 Gabor workers last Friday. No one was waiting. The German multinational is one of the largest footwear manufacturers in Portugal. He settled in the municipality of Barcelos in 1986.
“We were caught by surprise. There was more a funeral environment than work. People to cry, to feel bad. The workers were still encouraged to give more production. If they need more work, it is because there is work,” explains Maria José Ferreira, delegate Sindical
In the charter of dismissal to which SIC had access, the company says it became “It is necessary to reduce daily production and, as a result, the number of workers, to adjust the installed capacity to current work needs.”
Gabor management says that the goods are “A measure of rational, adequate, and proportional management.”
For 222 people – some over 30 years old – days of uncertainty and distress. It is the second time in a two -month space that the German multinational dismisses workers at the Barcelos factory. In April, 67 people were dismissed.
