Frankfurt am Main – Today, IG Metall, the general works council and Alstom announce that they have signed a future collective agreement that will initially secure jobs and locations in Germany for the next three years. The collective agreement is thus effective; the employer side had already signed it last week. With the targeted productivity improvements, production can also take place in Germany in the medium and long term. The agreement assumes that certain economic target agreements are achieved within the next few years.
Müslüm Yakisan, President of the Germany, Austria, Switzerland region at Alstom: “The future collective agreement sets the course for more competitiveness for Alstom in Germany and is therefore a real milestone for us. I would like to express my sincere thanks to all the works councils and IG Metall members who were involved in bringing about this collective agreement for the future. But it is also clear that further milestones must follow along the way. For all of us, it will now be a matter of working towards the jointly formulated goals in a focused manner.”
Jürgen Kerner, IG Metall board member responsible for the railway industry: “It was a long and sometimes very arduous journey. But it was worth it: the jobs have been saved, the locations secured. The colleagues at Alstom have played a large part in this success: Without their pressure and determination, this good result would not have been possible. The task now is to implement the collective agreement for the future quickly and consistently.”
René Straube, Chairman of the General Works Council for Alstom: “Our two most important goals have been achieved with this collective agreement: jobs and locations are secured for the time being and through increased productivity we will also produce in Germany in the medium and long term. For the colleagues, however, this future collective agreement is also a major turning point, which is why it is important that the expected successes come about.”
The future collective agreement contains the following key points:
Job security: The agreement provides for job security for the next three years. In the event of a fundamentally changed economic situation, personnel adjustments are only possible under jointly defined and contractually fixed conditions.
Repayment mechanism: The financial concessions made by the employees amount to a mid-double-digit million amount per year. This is exclusively about collectively agreed special payments and voluntary benefits from the employer. The monthly salary and the connection to the area of the metal and electrical industry remain unaffected. If performance-related key figures are achieved, the previously withheld special payments are paid back in the following year.
Location specialization and investments: Each location has a focus with a clear range of tasks. In addition, two percent of the German turnover is invested in the German locations every year in order to increase their competitiveness.
Alstom initiated restructuring in Germany at the end of 2021 in order to make the German Alstom locations more competitive. The future collective agreement that has now been concluded is the result of an agreement process that began in December 2021 with negotiations between management, the works council and IG Metall. The future collective agreement has a term of three years and applies to the majority of the German locations.
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ContactPress IG Metall:Artur SiemensTel.: +49 160 5331 782artur.siemens@igmetall.de
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