Plant in Eisenach
After the takeover of Opel by the French Peugeot group PSA unionists fear that especially the smallest German plant in Eisenach with its 1800 employees on the loose.
The Thuringian Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow has helped to preserve the OpelLocation Eisenach promised. It is about four specific areas, said the left-wing politician on Monday the news agency Reuters. “These four topics that would suit the company help at the Eisenach site“These aids will only exist if the collective bargaining partners returned to the negotiating table,
Opel had been taken over by the French PSA group, which included the brands Peugeot and Citroën belong. Trade unionists now fear that especially the smallest German Opel plant in Eisenach with its 1,800 employees is on the loose. Works Council and IG Metall accuse PSA after more than half a year of fruitless negotiations, with a clear cut in Germany to endanger the brand with the lightning, Opel calls for concessions of the workforce for investment.
Ramelow said that Thuringia would not be blackmailed with investment decisions. “We can not accept that.” The promised benefits include energy costs and land. Minister of State for Economic Affairs Wolfgang Tiefensee had worked out the measures with all those involved, including the Lord Mayor of Eisenach, the plant management, the works council and the IG Metall. “That’s when we made a ‘letter of interest’,” said Ramelow.
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The Prime Minister said that the three states with Opel locations would not divide themselves apart: “Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and Thuringia are jointly interested, the German brand Opel not as a nationalist issue, but as a question of joint responsibility for the brand Opel as Development and automotive brand. “
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PSA boss Carlos Tavares promised that during the first conversation with the prime ministers. “We are not recycling sites.” The goal must be to keep Opel as an independent production brand in the market.
In the dispute over the Opel refurbishment, CEO Michael Lohscheller asserted on Monday that the company was willing to invest in the German plants. The example Eisenach show that the plans are already on the table, said the manager in a message to the more than 18 000 employees in the German plants. However, the plans could not yet be implemented because the necessary level of competitiveness has not yet been achieved.
The plans for Eisenach even represented an improvement of the existing collective bargaining agreement, Lohscheller reiterated, in contrast to statements by IG Metall. Already in the first half of 2019, the production of a new vehicle could begin, which would be produced from 2020 in an electric hybrid version. Reports about possible closures of the works Eisenach and Kaiserslautern after failed negotiations described the Opel boss as “horror scenarios”.
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IG Metall had accused the French Opel parent company PSA on Friday extortion and demanded a detailed business plan for the coming years. The Opel leadership had demanded for the securing of just 1800 jobs far-reaching financial losses for all employees. At the Eisenach plant, where a major day of action is planned on Tuesday, according to the union, according to previous plans, around half of the 1,800 employees are expected to leave.
In a first reaction to the message, the Lohscheller Works Council stated that the product and project allocations specified in the collective agreements were not being complied with. “It’s about time that Herr Lohscheller finally presents a negotiable offer for Opel in Germany! Wage concessions are not an end in themselves, “the panel said.
Ramelow welcomed in principle the PSA entry, “if this creates a cost structure that makes Opel over the day back to an attractive company in Germany”. The detailed questions would have to clarify the collective bargaining parties. “I do not interfere in public.” The negotiations should be resumed. “So that the investment for Eisenach finally comes.”
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