At MAN, 9500 jobs are at stake.
In the fight for jobs, the Bavarian state government now also wants to help, announced Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger to Merkur.de.
The situation is serious
at Munich-based truck manufacturer
MAN
.
A total of up to
9500 jobs are
at stake, and three locations are threatened with closure.
The
Bavarian state government
is alarmed and is providing support in the fight for jobs.
Munich - In the fight for jobs at the ailing Munich truck maker
MAN
has the
Bavarian government
pledged their support.
"We will do our part to ensure that as many jobs as possible can be preserved in the end and that the consequences for those affected are as socially acceptable as possible," said Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs
Hubert Aiwanger
on Monday to Merkur.de *.
He sees good opportunities to support the commercial vehicle industry, for example with hydrogen drives for trucks.
There are other options for this in the context of the
High-Tech Agenda Bavaria
and the projects of the
Automotive Future Forum
.
MAN: Minister of State Aiwanger also sees the federal government as having an obligation
In order to maintain a high-performance commercial vehicle industry in Germany, the
federal government is also
“massively challenged”, warned
Aiwanger
.
In order to effectively support commercial vehicle manufacturers such as MAN, Bavaria's Minister of Economic Affairs called for a fleet exchange program for trucks and buses, "preferably Europe-wide".
The vehicle manufacturer alone has 4,200 jobs at stake in Bavaria.
Exchanging older vehicles for new models with significantly better emissions will secure jobs and benefit the environment.
Aiwanger also advocated better depreciation options when buying new trucks and buses.
Politicians must "use all instruments to boost demand".
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MAN: Harsh criticism of the Aiwanger auto summit
The Bavarian was harshly criticized at the latest auto summit.
They didn't take all opportunities.
“Setting up working groups and postponing until November” does not help anyone.
The head of the
Free Voters
in Bavaria also warned against further tightening of the climate targets by the
EU
.
“If we go over here, in the end we will not help anyone: neither the affected employees and their families, who fear for their existence, nor our economy.
And in the end not the climate either. "
MAN announced
on Friday that it would cut up to 9,500 jobs *.
This means that every fourth job could be eliminated.
In addition, the sites in
Steyr
(Austria),
Plauen
(Saxony) and
Wittlich
(Rhineland-Palatinate) are
threatened with
closure.
MAN Truck & Bus
had an operational loss of around 387 million euros in the first half of the year.
MAN
had to be "more digital and significantly more profitable," said Group boss
Andreas Tostmann,
justifying the tough cuts.
Tostmann had also increased the pressure internally.
Without the
Volkswagen *
group behind us, the situation would be “threatening our very existence”, said the
MAN
boss
, who has been in office since July,
in a video message posted on the intranet on Friday that Merkur.de * has.
* Merkur.de is part of the Ippen digital network