Volvo Cars driving on the highway right now. You just have to fend off some potholes in the road. As the tight labor situation bilbyggarna in the Torslanda plant.
Volvo Cars enjoyed floating past six months.
More cars are sold with a higher margin, especially XC60 whose sales rose nearly 20 percent.
Total sales increased although only by 1.4 percent, but operating profit rose to 1.7 billion, with 70 per cent compared with the first half of last year, helped by the strong dollar. Meanwhile, sales rose to SEK 75 billion, or 12 percent.
The figures are converted to the Chinese joint-venture factories are now integrated into the company for 2.2 billion.
a part of the great transformation of the company going and perfected with the decision to build a new factory in the United States until 2018. Then, Volvo’s new global structure to be completed, with production and sales in three markets, America, China / Asia and Europe.
As CEO Hakan Samuelsson , today presented the interim report, he described this as one of the most important changes in the Volvo Cars 88-year history. And the Torslanda plant have also celebrated their sjumiljonte production car since 1964.
Last but not least, the orders of the new XC90 has exceeded expectations. The 35 000 orders placed before customers could test drive the car has grown to 57 000. This year, the Torslanda plant to produce about 50 000 new XC90 and global beats Volvo Cars new record of nearly half a million cars produced.
To cope with the onslaught has been Torslanda recruited 1,500 new employees, 200 more than it imagined last fall introduced a third shift and increased production rates 48 to 50 cars per hour.
And here devotes Hakan Samuelsson a thought for their employees at the beginning of the press conference for the past six months.
“It means that people in production now are the ones who really have the main job. It is very hard work in the factory to build these new cars and deliver them to customers. This puts pressure on the organization, “says the CEO.
He would like to have shorter delivery times to customers than they have today:” It is something we have to work with. “
However, people listen factory employees, it sounds unlikely that it will build faster the coming autumn.
Several Volvo Workers GP talked to testify how the new labor agreement, the union wrote in to get XC90 production to Gothenburg, where the employer can control more of the working time, is already fully utilized.
Mandatory overtime on weekdays and Saturday work, where the news may be the same Friday, described more as a rule than an exception since the spring. Some describe how they work overtime every day, others in virtually every Saturday, depending on where in the plant the work.
With only one day of rest in the week, after forcibly canceled weekend trips and difficulties in planning their leisure time, starting several XC90 builders be declared.
“You can not plan a life as it is now. I have always been very loyal to the company and recommended the Volvo as a workplace for many. But now I can not do it anymore. Something must be done, “says one of the fitters with 20 years experience in the factory.
” One billion in profits’re great. But we have shorter breaks and we must not rest on weekends, people will become worn out, “said another.
IF Metall Glenn Bergström describes the recent past as” strained and very, very tough in some places in the factory. ” But he believes that over time not due to the new agreement, but problems with the supply of parts to the production.
A company that builds its brand around trust must be relatively satisfied employees, who speak well of the company. Historically, Volvo Cars workers also generally been proud of the job, the cars and the company.
But if it keeps on changing with the global transformation Volvo Cars has a problem.
is something Hakan Samuelsson has to work with.
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