Opel plant in Rüsselsheim
Works Council Chairman Wolfgang Schäfer-Klug stated that he did not want to accept any subsequent conditions for contracts from the new parent company.
At the crisis carmaker Opel The restructuring talks between the employee representatives and the new parent company PSA are faltering. In a statement distributed on Friday throws the OpelTariff Commission to managers to want to undermine existing collective agreements.
“We do not accept any subsequent conditions for contracts that are recognized, taken over and legally binding by PSA,” said Wolfgang Schäfer-Klug, the chairman of the general works council. The workforce does not pay twice for a contract.
Still with the old owner General Motors In the past year, protection against redundancies due to operational layoffs was agreed by the end of 2018 for the employees of the German plants, as well as several production commitments made by PSA in the Opel purchase in August 2017.
Opel headquarters: PSA awards further development expertise to Rüsselsheim
In November, PSA boss Carlos Tavares had announced a reorganization program, which is to make do without plant closures and layoffs. Invested but only where the costs were right, the Portuguese had announced together with Opel CEO Michael Lohscheller.
Current club events
Friday, 13.04.18 Dusseldorf: WHU – Digital at Scale Program
Friday, 13.04.18, 09:00 Stuttgart: Invest: Leading Trade Fair and Congress for Finance and Investment
Tuesday, 03.04.18, 18:00 Hamburg: Stadium Talk: How HSV reorganizes its finances
Friday, 06.04.18, 18:30 Hamburg: Christine Westermann live
Tuesday, 10.04.18, 18:30 Düsseldorf: Club Talk “The Chinese Challenge”
Tuesday, 04/17/18, 4:45 pm Düsseldorf: Tomás Saraceno – in orbit
One would be willing to invest at the German sites with a corresponding cost base, said an Opel spokesman on Friday.
After a series of investment decisions for Opel sites outside Germany were announced this week, trade unionists are now asking PSA to “immediately submit constructive proposals for the German sites.”
The employees also rejected an exit from the metal collective agreement and demanded new agreements, the duration of which must go well beyond the year 2020. The basis would be a long-term Opel future plan. It is now time for the employers to finally make constructive proposals, said the tariff secretary of the IG Metall district center, Uwe Schütz.