The car manufacturer Opel does not come to rest.
New considerations by the parent company Stellantis drive the union and works council to the barricades.
They fear that the traditional brand will be “broken up”.
Rüsselsheim / Eisenach - IG Metall and the works council have reacted with sharp criticism to plans by the car company Stellantis to remove legal responsibility for the plants in Rüsselsheim and Eisenach from its German subsidiary Opel.
For October 29, the union IG Metall announced protest actions in its Mitte district, which includes the four federal states of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Thuringia.
“With the planned break-up, the parent company of Opel is endangering the entire brand, locations and employment as well as the co-determination structures.
The employee representatives will not accept that without resistance, ”said a statement from the union on Friday.
The chairman of the Opel general works council, Uwe Baum, emphasized that the announcement did not follow any economic logic.
“Rather, it is an attempt to escape participation.
The sole purpose of the break-up is to weaken successful co-determination in Germany. ”According to their own statements, IG Metall and the works councils do not know what the conversion plans for Opel should look like.
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After a “Handelsblatt” report on Thursday evening, a company spokesman announced on request that Stellantis was considering developing the two production sites in Rüsselsheim and Eisenach into their own legal and production organizations.
"Cooperation and flexibility within the Stellantis production network" should be further strengthened.
The move should help secure jobs in the long term.
This will be achieved, among other things, through a simpler product allocation through the independence of the plants and the implementation of more efficient solutions on site.
The spokesman emphasized that the Eisenach plant had already been independent from 1990 to the end of 2013.
Rüsselsheim is the headquarters of the traditional Opel brand.
“Of course, the working conditions should remain unchanged for all employees and the existing collective agreements and works agreements should continue to apply.
We now want to talk to the social partner about the exact structure, ”said the group spokesman.
According to information from the "Handelsblatt", the management around Stellantis boss Carlos Tavares is considering separating the production facilities in Rüsselsheim and Eisenach from Opel Automobile GmbH and transferring them to independent companies.
According to the plans, both companies would no longer be linked to Opel in Germany, but directly to a Stellantis unit, for example in the Netherlands.
dpa
