The Munich truck manufacturer MAN wants to cut up to 9500 jobs.
Up to 7,000 jobs are at risk at the German locations, Steyr, Wittlich and Plauen are threatened with extinction.
The Munich truck manufacturer
MAN
wants to reposition itself and save costs
On Friday, the group announced the cut of
9,500 jobs
.
Especially in
Munich
,
Nuremberg
and
Salzgitter
the tremors are now beginning.
Update from September 11, 11.29 a.m.:
According to an initial overview,
up to 7,000 jobs are on the
verge of the problem at
the truck manufacturer
MAN Truck & Bus
.
This can be seen from the figures available.
After that, the plant in
Steyr
and the
Plauen
and
Wittlich
locations will be
"available", the company announced on Friday.
The company employs a total of around 2,200 people at its Austrian location.
MAN took
over the former Steyr-Puch plant in 1989 and builds trucks of the light and medium-sized series
TGL
and
TGM there
.
In Plauen,
MAN
buses retrofit according to customer requirements.
According to a company spokesman, the company currently employs 140 people in the
former
Neoplan plant
.
In
Wittlich
in Rhineland-Palatinate, the company with its 80 employees has so far concentrated on custom-made trucks such as smaller cabs for car transporters or special airport vehicles.
VW subsidiary plans job cuts: In Germany up to 7,000 jobs are on the verge
If the three locations were to be closed, around
2,400 jobs would be lost
.
Overall, the company plans to cut around
9,500 jobs
.
The remaining approximately 7,000 positions could thus be allocated to the other locations.
At the main plant in Munich alone, the company currently has around 9,000 employees in production and administration, and the engine plant in
Nuremberg
accounts for a further 3,600
.
In
Salzgitter
, where the
Traton
subsidiary manufactures axles and other components, the truck manufacturer has 2,400 employees.
The company initially left open on Friday exactly how many jobs are to be deleted at the German locations.
There will be corresponding discussions with the works council, said a
MAN
spokesman on Friday opposite Merkur.de *.
The relevant negotiations should take place promptly.
However, they are striving for "as
socially acceptable job cuts
as possible
," it said.
The savings should affect all areas of the group, from administration to production to sales.
Research and development are not excluded from the plans, it said.
According to corporate circles, there could also be "job cuts" at the main plant in Munich.
This applies to both administration and production.
Actually,
an employment
pact applies at
MAN
.
Thereafter, redundancies for operational reasons are excluded until 2030.
VW: MAN works council announces bitter resistance over planned job cuts
The
MAN works council
sharply criticized the Munich truck manufacturer's plan on Friday and announced bitter resistance.
"These are management concepts from deep down out of the moth
boxes,
" said works council
chairman Saki Stimoniaris
.
The workforce will not atone for serious management mistakes, but will offer resistance.
Overall, the management's plan would mean that “every second job in Germany and Austria would be destroyed”.
In the
face of the Corona crisis,
MAN Truck & Bus
slipped deep into the red in the first half of the year.
From January to June, the VW subsidiary had sunk 387 million euros operationally after a profit of 253 million in the same period last year.
Incoming orders fell by 22 percent to 4.78 billion euros in the first six months, while sales fell by a good quarter to 4.07 billion euros.
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With the announced restructuring, the group wants to realign itself in the long term.
In addition to hydrogen and electric drives, the truck manufacturer, which belongs to the
VW
subsidiary
Traton, plans to invest
heavily in digitalization and autonomous driving in the coming years.
MAN is planning massive job cuts: Thousands of jobs in Germany and Austria are at risk - entire locations are about to be closed
First report from September 11th, 8.25 a.m .:
The
truck manufacturer MAN
wants to reposition itself and therefore cut
up to
9,500 jobs
in
Germany
and
Austria
.
The VW subsidiary announced on Friday in Munich that this is part of improving the result by around 1.8 billion euros.
Only in July there was a change in the company's management.
Volkswagen is exchanging several top managers in its commercial vehicle divisions.
The heads of
Traton
and
MAN
lost their posts.
MAN is cutting jobs - entire locations could close
Jobs
are to be cut in all areas
, and the managers want to move production and development to other locations.
The production site in
Steyr, Austria,
and the plants in
Plauen (Saxony)
and
Wittlich (Rhineland-Palatinate)
could be closed completely.
Major job cuts have been up
for discussion
at
MAN for a
long time
because the group's costs were
too high
even before the
Corona crisis
.
Most recently, up to
6000 positions were mentioned
in media reports
.
There had been a
violent dispute
between the former
VW commercial vehicle board member and Traton boss Andreas Renschler
and the employee side
about the procedure
.
Renschler had to vacate his posts at VW at the beginning of July, Traton and
MAN
got new bosses.
MAN conversion: costs in the upper three-digit million range
For the conversion,
MAN
estimates costs in the mid to upper three-digit million range.
Negotiations with the employee representatives regarding the
downsizing
are to be started as soon
as possible.
"The intended realignment will require a fundamental restructuring of the MAN Truck & Bus business in all areas, including a realignment of the development and production network as well as significant job cuts," the press release said.
"In this context, some development and production processes are planned to be relocated to other locations."
MAN: Downsizing is likely even without a corona pandemic
MAN
and the Swedish truck manufacturer Scania are part of the
Volkswagen Group
.
The industry is also under pressure because of the sharp drop in demand for trucks worldwide.
In Europe, even before the
corona pandemic
, MAN expected
a decline of 10 to 20 percent this year, which made
job cuts at MAN
more likely.
At the 2016 works meeting, an agreement was announced that will secure employment until at least 2025 *.
(dpa)
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network