The works council of the Daimler -Werks in Untertürkheim has distanced itself in a detailed statement from right-wing members of the panel.
The ongoing negative coverage of the right-wing group “Zentrum Automobil” is a shame for the workforce, the letter says. “The Untertürkheim plant now appears in the media as a reservoir for neo-Nazis and a center of right-wing extremist activities.”
Media reports have repeatedly been published about the four works council members of “Zentrum Automobil” over the past months. Accordingly, they should have close contacts with the right-wing extremist scene.
Statements before the NSU investigation committee
In the reports was of appearances at rallies of the AfD and Pegida the speech, from former memberships in the banned neo-Nazi organization Wiking-Jugend and the skinhead troop “Crusaders for Germany”.
Also with the terrorist group National Socialist underground (NSU), three of the four works councils have been linked – two had even had to testify before the NSU investigation committee in Stuttgart.
Zetsche is alarmed
The other 41 works council members of the factory can not get rid of their colleagues. But they distance themselves from “all right-wing and neo-Nazi ideas”. At the Untertürkheim plant people from more than 50 nations worked, the works council served the concerns and interests of the workforce and should not be abused for foreign political purposes.
The works council had discussed the topic on Tuesday – the group “center automobile” had not taken position, but was absent, including the deputy. At the beginning of March, the factory Untertürkheim Works council elections ,
Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche had just two weeks ago in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” pleaded for the To minimize the influence of the groupings in the works council elections , “I urge employees to be heavily involved in the election,” he said.