Opel plant in Eisenach
Under the leadership of the new owner PSA Opel wants to install in the Thuringian plant only an off-road vehicle instead of the previously two models Adam and Corsa.
The troubled carmaker Opel According to union information plans a massive staff reduction in his Eisenach assembly plant, The workforce could shrink from currently around 1800 to just under 1000 people, if the previously existing production planning is implemented, it said on Wednesday in circles of the IG Metall.
Under the leadership of the new owner PSA wants Opel in the Thuringian plant only a SUV instead of the previously two models Adam and Corsa assemble. According to reports, it should be converted from three to two shifts.
The IG Metall insists, however, that PSA to previous production commitments of the old owner General Motors is bound. PSA has so far insured to advance the rehabilitation without layoffs and plant closures.
IG Metall and the works council invited the workforce at Rüsselsheim’s headquarters to an early works meeting on Thursday in order to inform about the current development. Similar meetings are planned at the other Opel locations.
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“PSA and the management approve of the breach of collective bargaining”, it said in a leaflet that was mobilized for the company meetings. “After months of negotiations, there are still no satisfactory proposals for an equal fulfillment of the product and project commitments from the development and works agreements on the table.”
Because of the stalled savings negotiations had the Opel mother Peugeot Citroen (PSA) at the beginning of the week, the promise for a new model for Eisenach on ice. In a letter to the workforce, Opel CEO Michael Lohscheller accused IG Metall and the Works Council of not having put forward a concrete proposal on how to reach the productivity targets in order to make Eisenach competitive.
The company demands from the employees wage reduction in return for investment and employment promise. IG Metall and works council reject this. They insist that after the omission of the Corsa in Eisenach PSA builds a second, high-volume model next to the Adam. The employee representatives fear that the site otherwise has no future.
From the point of view of IG Metall, Eisenach is a test for the further negotiations on the capacity utilization of the other Opel locations. Therefore, the conflict is especially bitter. After all, the component plant in Kaiserslautern is also considered endangered in employee circles. The factory in Bochum was already in late 2014 by the then Opel-mother General Motors closed.
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