Michael Lohscheller
The Opel boss hopes to suspend the upcoming tariff increase.
The automaker Opel demands further salary concessions of the approximately 19,000 employees in Germany during the ongoing restructuring. He had asked the IG Metall to suspend the tariff increase in April for the time of the restructuring negotiations, confirmed Opel-Mark Michael Lohscheller in an interview published on Thursday with the house magazine “Opel-Post”.
Opel was taken over by the French PSA group last August and is currently undergoing a major refurbishment, which is also linked to short-time work.
The employee representatives have The request of the management so far strictly rejected and paid for the pay increase by 4.3 percent. One does not pay twice for an already negotiated contract, the general works council chairman Wolfgang Schäfer-Klug had declared weeks ago. Still with the old owner General Motors had been taken over by PSA and must be adhered to.
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The Opel boss, however, again stated that investments in German locations depended on their competitiveness. “We are simply not in the same financial situation as the other German car manufacturers, but we are in the same difficult environment. That’s why we have to reach an agreement with IG Metall and the works council that will restore Opel’s competitiveness against its competitors, “said Lohscheller.
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The PSA subsidiary Opel had made several investment decisions in recent weeks for Opel plants outside Germany, which were associated with concessions from the national unions. For the German sites Rüsselsheim, Eisenach and Kaiserslautern a fundamental agreement with the employees is still pending.
According to Lohscheller, the talks are “in a decisive phase”. “The goal is clear: Together, we want to bring Opel in Germany on the same dynamic path as the other locations in Europe.”