PSA: Opel workforce continues to protest against sales plans

Opel development center

Parts of the center in Rüsselheim are to be sold to the engineering service provider Segula.

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RuesselsheimBeim car maker Opel it continues to ferment in the workforce. Against a planned company meeting on Thursday at the headquarters Rüsselsheim formed again resistance against the planned partial sale of the local Development center to the engineering service provider Segula.

A leaflet distributed on Wednesday the IG metal According to him, accompanying negotiations with management have so far left no results. The union and works council had the Opel agreed termination protection until 2023, the acquisition of all collective agreements and a right of return for the changer required.

None of the demands had been met so far. “It’s clear: the workforce wants the targeted partial sale of the ITEZ still not “, it said.

About 2,000 engineers are to change employer, because Opel after the takeover by the French PSA Group, the International Technical Development Center (ITEZ) can no longer work.

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The background to this are the orders of the former Opel owner expiring in 2020 General Motors, According to previous announcements, Opel and Segula want to conclude the deal agreed in November until next summer. Both companies have announced the close cooperation with the employees.

The company stewards of the IG metal name more problems with Opel. So it is still not clear which second model mounted next to the Insignia in Rüsselsheim and which gear should be made here. As a result of the scheduled workforce reductions, the workload in key corporate departments such as purchasing or the parts warehouse has also grown.

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