Bavaria's Minister of Economic Affairs Hubert Aiwanger has warned the truck manufacturer MAN to be prudent in view of the planned staff cuts.
The job cuts would have to be socially acceptable, he told Merkur.de.
MAN
wants to cut 9,500 jobs across the group, around 4,300 of them in Bavaria.
The
Bavarian state government
sees the plans with concern.
Economics Minister
Hubert Aiwanger
asked the
VW
subsidiary in an interview with Merkur.de to refrain from redundancies for operational reasons.
Munich - The Bavarian state government does
not want to accept
the planned job cuts at
MAN
of around 4,300 jobs in the Free State: "We will not accept cuts of this magnitude as they are now in the room," said Bavaria's Minister of Economic Affairs
Hubert Aiwanger
(
FW
) on Thursday
Merkur. de
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At the same time, Aiwanger warned the Munich truck builder to be prudent for the upcoming negotiations with the works council.
If job cuts cannot be prevented, it must be “socially acceptable”.
Bavaria's Minister of Economic Affairs thus indirectly opposed possible redundancies for operational reasons.
According to the
MAN works council
, the group intends to terminate the current contracts for securing locations and jobs by September 30th.
So far, they have actually ruled out redundancies for operational reasons.
However, they contain a so-called profitability clause.
The
VW
subsidiary now
wants to
pull this
regulation, also known as the “thunderstorm clause”
.
MAN tightens the pace
The group is thus tightening its pace.
Volkswagen
is considered a stronghold of
IG Metall
, the
VW works council
as particularly influential.
Therefore, redundancies for operational
reasons are actually taboo
in the
VW
group.
MAN Truck & Bus
, which
belongs
to the
Volkswagen
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Group
through
Traton,
slipped deep into the red in the first half of the year with an operating loss of 387 million euros.
Now the new
MAN
boss
Andreas Tostmann is
apparently
pulling
the emergency brake.
MAN wants to relocate production from the main plant in Munich to Krakow
The Munich-based truck manufacturer plans to cut 9,500 jobs.
In
Munich
and
Nuremberg
alone
, every third job is to be eliminated.
The locations in Steyr (Upper Austria), Plauen (Saxony) and Wittlich (Rhineland-Palatinate) are threatened with closure.
At the same time, the company is planning a comprehensive renovation.
After that, the production of the heavy truck range and the manufacture of the cabs could be moved from Munich and
relocated to
the Polish plant in
Krakow
.
The axle production in the main plant could be outsourced.
In the future, only trucks with alternative drives will be built in Munich.
Around 3,000 employees in the Bavarian capital would be affected by the plans.
In
MAN
-Motorenwerk in
Nuremberg
1300 points are at stake.
Other corporations have also announced massive cuts at their locations in the Free State.
The auto supplier
Continental
wants to cut
2100 jobs
in
Regensburg
alone
, the ball bearing specialist
Schaeffler
wants to cut
around 1000 jobs
in
Schweinfurt
, a total of 4400 jobs are to be cut.
Aiwanger: Industry remains Bavaria's strength
Aiwanger does not see the latest developments at
MAN
and other industrial companies as a beacon for the future of industrial jobs in the Free State.
The manufacturing industry "is and will remain a strength of Bavaria and Germany," said Aiwanger.
However, this is not a sure-fire success.
In order to maintain an efficient industry in Germany, the federal government in particular must now quickly set the right course, demanded the head of the Free Voters in
Bavaria
.
For this, the tax framework would have to be “urgently improved”.
In view of the tense situation at
MAN
, Aiwanger again spoke out in favor of an aid program to renew the truck fleet.
The federal government must now “finally come around the corner with the expected fleet exchange program”.
The considerations, which are now also being
examined
by Federal Transport Minister
Andreas Scheuer
(
CSU
), provide for a bonus for exchanging old for new commercial vehicles with significantly lower pollutant emissions.
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