According to a survey on works councils in the metal and electrical industry, the loss of at least 14,100 jobs threatens in the middle of the IG Metall district. Works councils were interviewed in Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Thuringia, as IG Metall district manager Jörg Köhlinger reported on Tuesday in a press conference. Around 2,000 companies with more than 500 employees had been included. Of the 177 companies, from which there are answers, 36 planned a job reduction. In some cases, this is already public, said Köhlinger. The district manager cited the closure of the Ford plant in Saarlouis at the end of the year, with which around 3000 jobs are eliminated, and the car supplier Continental. Continental Automotive announced the deletion of 1200 positions in the Rhine-Main area in 2024. In January it was announced that there were still 200 more eliminated because Continental will not offer the employees of the Wetzlar location before the closure. In addition to Continental, even more suppliers are likely to be affected, because according to the trade unionist, the workplace reduction is not least driven by the problems of the auto industry. “Seven out of ten of the companies in our organizational sector are at least partially on the burner,” he said. However, there is no way around switching to e-mobility. More of the ThemaKöhlinger demanded more state funding in order to cushion the transformation towards a climate-neutral economy. The hiring or suspension of funding programs according to the constitutional court judgment on the debt brake 2023 led to some companies putting investments in the decarbonization of their production. As a success for IG Metall, Köhlinger evaluated that the union in the middle of the middle of the middle year was added to almost 15,700 employees be. Because of the demographic change, the number of members had dropped slightly in the year, namely by two percent to around 287,100.
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