The meeting, announced in February by the majority union UGT, is considered decisive for clarifying the plant's future. On the table is the allocation of the new multi-energy model planned for 2027 and, above all, its production volume, a workload that would allow an end to the current employment regulation period affecting the workforce.

Meanwhile, the factory returns to routine with scheduled stoppages derived from the ERTE Red, which applies to 4,152 workers. As usual, production will stop on Mondays, and for the remainder of April, there will be no activity on the 20th and 27th. May will be particularly complicated, with eight days of inactivity at the vehicle plant —on the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 11th, 18th, and 25th— and two at the engine plant, on the 4th and 11th.

This scenario responds to the drop in production over the last year and the current fiscal year, in which the factory operates with a single model, the Ford Kuga, which has significantly reduced the workload.

The ERTE Red, initiated in 2025 and extended for six months at the end of that same year after approval by the Council of Ministers, maintains the conditions agreed upon in the agreement signed in 2024. Thus, stoppages are carried out on a rotating basis with 996 daily affected workers, who receive 90% of their salary plus 100% of supplements.

The sector's hopes remain pinned on the announcement made almost two years ago by Ford's European Vice President, Kieran Caghill, who foreshadowed the arrival of a “totally new” global vehicle, not completely electric, with an estimated annual production of 300,000 units. However, since then the company has not offered new details about this project for Almussafes.