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The workforce at the Opel plant in Rüsselsheim is concerned about an alleged relocation of jobs to Morocco.
The workforce learned about the ideas from newspaper reports, union circles said on Thursday.
The company intends to relocate jobs to Morocco, but nothing specific is known.
The uncertainty in the workforce is correspondingly great.
Opel's parent company Stellantis is reportedly planning to produce its new electric car at a plant in Kenitra, Morocco.
In Rüsselsheim, “highly qualified positions are systematically being cut and relocated to low-wage countries,” wrote the “Darmstädter Echo”.
Details were not discussed with the employee representatives, union circles said.
It is also not the first time that the media reported about management ideas before they were discussed with employee representatives.
At the beginning of the month, the "Handelsblatt" reported that Stellantis was considering removing its corporate responsibility for the factories in Rüsselsheim in Hesse and in Eisenach in Thuringia from its subsidiary. Accordingly, the two factories are to be transferred to separate companies. A production stop in the Eisenach plant that came into force at the beginning of October due to a lack of chips also caused unrest among the workforce.
The federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and Thuringia demanded future prospects for the locations in Germany in mid-October.
"Both issues" - a possible spin-off and the production stop - led to doubts and concern in the German public, "said Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD) as well as Prime Ministers Volker Bouffier (CDU) and Bodo Ramelow (left) in a letter to Stellantis.
They demanded "trustworthy communication" from Stellantis.
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