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Continental headquarters in Hanover: Thousands of jobs are at risk at the automotive supplier
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Continental wants to close even more locations than previously known.
The Dax company announced that the tire plant in Aachen is to be closed by the end of 2021.
1800 jobs are affected, but this has not yet been finally decided.
The IG BCE union therefore strongly criticized the plans: "The deforestation is neither due to the transformation of the auto industry nor to the corona crisis," said Francesco Grioli, member of the union's board of directors.
Christiane Benner from IG Metall and deputy chairwoman of the supervisory board of Continental criticized the announcement as a short-sighted answer to economic problems.
The works council assumes that the company wants to relocate production to low-wage locations abroad.
Car manufacturers had stopped their factories around the world for weeks in the second quarter because the dealerships also had to close due to the pandemic and the dealers could not sell vehicles.
Continental not only depends directly on car production with auto parts, but also in the tire business with the initial equipment of new cars. The slump in sales was strongest in the electronics, sensor and brake systems business, but also in the drive division.
30,000 jobs are threatened
For the
Babenhausen
plant
in Hesse
, Continental announced last year that it would end production of control instruments for cars there by 2025.
In
Mühlhausen
,
Thuringia
, the company also wants to part with its location there.
The plant is to be closed by the end of 2022.
Production is to cease in 2024 in
Roding
,
Bavaria
.
The plant in
Karben
with 1,100 employees is also on the cross-off list, according to the employee representatives - but nothing has been decided there according to the company.
Most recently, Continental assumed that 30,000 of the more than 230,000 jobs worldwide could be affected.
13,000 of the jobs in question are located in Germany.
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