“Stellantis brings 1,500 jobs back to the United States after meeting [le président des Etats-Unis, Donald] Trump »writes the White House on the X network. Here is an effective president, who repopulates industrial America in two days. In fact, the announcement from the Franco-Italian-American automaker is the culmination of a long-standing negotiation. In 2023, following a massive strike led by the United Auto Workers union, Stellantis promised to restart the Belvidere, Illinois, plant and invest nearly $5 billion (4.8 billion euros). Promise withdrawn in August 2024 in view of the company's poor results, provoking the anger of the unions against the CEO, Carlos Tavares.
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Since then, the irascible boss has been thanked and, on Monday January 20, a new tenant moved into the White House. The watchword now is: above all, don't get angry. John Elkann, heir to the Agnelli empire and president of Stellantis, met Donald Trump and announced the reopening of the Belvidere factory as well as investments in four other American sites of the group.
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