At the car manufacturer Opel, a breach of a production relocation to Morocco caused great unrest.
Rüsselsheim - 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 no specific information is known.
The uncertainty in the workforce is correspondingly great.
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In Rüsselsheim, “highly qualified positions would be systematically cut and relocated to low-wage countries,” fears the
Darmstadt 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.
Production stop at Opel was already causing unrest
At the beginning of the month, the
Handelsblatt
reported that Stellantis was considering removing its subsidiary company responsibility for the factories in Rüsselsheim in Hesse and in Eisenach in Thuringia. Accordingly, the two factories are to be transferred to their own 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 facts" - 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.