MAN wants to terminate job guarantee - 3000 jobs at the main Munich plant before the end

The Munich truck manufacturer MAN is increasing the pressure on its employees.

According to the works council, the VW subsidiary wants to terminate the employment guarantee.

The works council announces massive resistance.

• The situation is serious at

  the Munich truck manufacturer

  MAN

  .

• The

  VW

  subsidiary wants to cut a total of 9500 jobs.

• The main plant in

  Munich

  is facing a profound restructuring

Munich - The Munich-based truck manufacturer

takes drastic measures with the planned reduction of 9,500 jobs.

The corporation plans to terminate the contracts in force at the job and location security at its German sites as of September 30, said

-Betriebsratschef

at Tuesday's staff meeting loudly about consistent reports of participants.

This would also make operational dismissals possible, said a person familiar with the processes to Merkur.de *.

Stimoniaris said the termination plans are “the bottom drawer.

When the board of directors says there are no taboos, then all options are on the table for us as a workforce. "The influential head of the VW * general works council chairman

the

employees: The board of directors was" well advised, if he deals with topics other than this notice period, ”said the unionist in a video message to the employees.  

So far, redundancies for operational

actually excluded

at the

subsidiary.

The employment and location security contracts in

,

and

, which were

only extended in 2018,

run until December 31, 2030.

Now the new

boss

tightening

the pace.

MAN: truck manufacturer draws "thunderstorm clause"

Tostmann refers to a corresponding profitability clause (“thunderstorm clause”) in the contracts.

slipped deep into the red in the first half of the year.

From January to June, the company lost 387 million euros operationally.

Now the

subsidiary is

tightening

the pace.

According to the plans,

a total of 3,000 jobs

are to be cut in

alone

, according to corporate circles.

That would be every third job.

In future, the entire assembly of heavy commercial vehicles as well as the production of the driver's cabs will be withdrawn from the Bavarian capital and

taken over

by the

plant

.

The axle production should also lose the main factory.

In the future, it could be outsourced to external contract manufacturers.

In the

medium term,

only

wants to

build vehicles with alternative drives at

its main plant

.

Considerably fewer employees would be required for this, it said.

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MAN: The Krakow plant could be massively upgraded

There is also a

risk of massive cuts

at the

and

locations

.

After that,

wants to

shut down component production in Salzgitter and

move

to the

plant

.

This could result in a further 1,400 employees losing their jobs, and 1,200 employees in the Nuremberg engine plant are threatened with death.

also

wants to

thin out its German sales and service network considerably.

This could cost another 1,500 jobs, it is said.

A group spokesman declined to comment on Tuesday with reference to the upcoming negotiations with the works council.

face of digitization, automation and the change to alternative drives,

facing a fundamental change in the industry, it just said.

However, the company does not have the money for the corresponding investments.  

MAN

surprisingly announced the cut of 9,500 jobs on September 11th.

The plant in the Austrian plant in

and the

(Saxony) and

(Rhineland-Palatinate)

locations

are up for grabs, it said.

The employees in Steyr, Wittlich and Plauen still hope that their locations will be retained.

But within the group it looks rather bad.

builds

the light (TGL) and medium series (TGM)

in

.

In future they will

roll off the assembly line at

the

in

.

The governor of Upper Austria Thomas Stelzer warned Merkur.de * of a possible closure, including the suppliers, around 4400 jobs.

* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen digital network.