At Opel, the parent company Stellantis and IG Metall cleared several points of contention.
The two car factories that still exist in Germany remain part of the German Opel company - and are even building cars again.
Rüsselsheim - After strong protests by the workforce, the Stellantis car company has given up the plan to outsource the production plants of its German subsidiary Opel. The Astra factory at the Rüsselsheim headquarters and the factory in Eisenach, Thuringia, are to be continued within the German Opel Automobile GmbH, as the company and IG Metall reported on Wednesday. A corresponding collective agreement has been concluded. Eisenach will then act as a wholly-owned subsidiary within Opel GmbH, as it did years before.
At the Eisenach site, production is also to be resumed at the beginning of the year, as both sides declared.
It had meanwhile been stopped due to a lack of parts and the employees were sent on short-time work.
The plant will in future produce the entire volume of the Opel Grandland model, as Stellantis explained.
The car has meanwhile also been assembled at other Stellantis locations.
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IG Metall and the works councils feared for their co-determination rights at the announced spin-off and protested against a possible “break-up”.
The workers had also received support from the state governments of Hesse, Thuringia and Rhineland-Palatinate, whose economics ministers want to meet with Opel boss Uwe Hochgeschurtz on Friday.
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The Eisenach works council chief Bernd Lösche reacted with relief to the agreement, which, according to an internal communication, will apply at least until the end of 2022.
According to a statement, Lösche said: "The Grandland exclusively for Eisenach now brings the binding commitment that we need in Eisenach in order to be more future-proof."
The chairman of the IG Metall district center, Jörg Köhlinger, said that the spin-off and break-up of Opel was prevented and employment was secured.
He added: "I hope that the management will steer the company more constructively and transparently in the future and that from now on Opel will only inspire employees and the public with innovative vehicles."
