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Staff at a Fiat Chrysler plant in Italy are to strike after its main investor determined to pay €112m (£99.2m) to sign footballer Cristiano Ronaldo for Juventus.
Both the soccer club and the carmaker are controlled by way of the Agnelli family thru their protecting company.
For the USB union, the verdict method Fiat is lacking out on investment.
It said the company had to guarantee the future of thousands of individuals, “in place of enriching only one”.
The union added that it used to be “unacceptable” that while Fiat Chrysler workers were making “massive economic sacrifices”, millions of euros have been being spent on the acquire of a player.
The four-12 months deal to woo Ronaldo from Real Madrid was announced on Tuesday amid fear that Juventus might have overpaid for the 33-12 months-old forward.
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Even Supposing Juventus and Fiat Chrysler are run as totally separate companies, they are both controlled by way of Exor, the funding retaining of the Agnelli circle of relatives.
The USB union has referred to as for a strike at the Melfi plant in southern Italy, which makes cars including the Fiat Punto and the 500X.
Its members will walk out at 22:00 local time on Sunday and stay on strike until 18:00 on the following Tuesday.
However, the affect of the stoppage is likely to be restricted. The manufacturing facility is just one in every of seven Fiat Chrysler crops in Italy and the USB does not constitute many employees there.
