Continental
The group wants to close its location in Karben, Hessen, with 1,100 employees by 2023.
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Karben The conflict over the threatened closure of the plant of the automotive supplier Continental in Karben in Hesse is escalating. After renewed fruitless negotiations with management, IG Metall calls on employees to go on a 24-hour strike.
Work will rest on Thursday (April 15) from 6 a.m., said the Frankfurt representative of the union, Michael Erhardt, on Wednesday of the German press agency.
This was preceded by the third round of negotiations on a social collective agreement on Tuesday. Continental plans to close the electronics site with around 1,100 employees by 2023 for competitive reasons. The union reproaches the company for wanting to relocate jobs to low-wage countries out of “pure greed for profit”.
Actually, the union and works council flatly reject the closure, but at the same time are negotiating the social collective agreement. This creates the legal basis for industrial action such as the announced 24-hour strike.
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The union board has now approved an indefinite strike, said Erhardt. “We will prove on Thursday that we can strike.”
At the Conti plant in Babenhausen in southern Hesse, the employees there had managed to extend production by three years in the negotiations for a social wage agreement. In Karben, the union is demanding qualification offers and severance payments of up to 250,000 euros for long-term employees.
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