BARCELONA: Japan's Nissan Motor Co has decided to close its factory in Barcelona, resulting in the loss of about 3,000 jobs as part of a worldwide restructuring plan, the Spanish government said on Thursday .
Carmaking alliance partners Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi Motors said on Wednesday they were reorganising their global production to save costs and become more efficient, raising fears that Nissan's Barcelona factory would shut.Renault, which will now take the lead for the alliance in Europe, has two factories in Spain.
Nissan's main plant in Barcelona employs about 2,400 workers with another 600 workers in several related facilities. It's Nissan's main plant in Europe after one in Britain.Nissan workers have been staging protests since early May after the company only partially resumed its production following what was then a temporary shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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