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Saarland wants to make Ford responsible

2022-06-23T14:19:10.882Z


Saarland wants to make Ford responsible Created: 06/23/2022Updated: 06/23/2022, 16:07 Saarland's Prime Minister Anke Rehlinger (SPD) is standing in the Ford Saarlouis parking lot. © Oliver Dietze/dpa The anger about Ford is great in Saarland. After the no to Saarlouis as a car location, the Saarland expects concrete proposals from the company for employees threatened with job loss. Saarbrücken


Saarland wants to make Ford responsible

Created: 06/23/2022Updated: 06/23/2022, 16:07

Saarland's Prime Minister Anke Rehlinger (SPD) is standing in the Ford Saarlouis parking lot.

© Oliver Dietze/dpa

The anger about Ford is great in Saarland.

After the no to Saarlouis as a car location, the Saarland expects concrete proposals from the company for employees threatened with job loss.

Saarbrücken - Leading politicians in Saarland want to make the US car manufacturer Ford more responsible after its rejection of the Saarlouis production site.

Prime Minister Anke Rehlinger (SPD said at a special session of the state parliament on Thursday in Saarbrücken that she expects Ford to develop “own ideas and proposals” for jobs in Saarlouis beyond 2025. “The ideas that I know about them are far too flimsy, far too vague, far too imprecise and affect far too few workers," she said.

Rehlinger announced that she wanted to launch a "future pact" for the industrial location: "Now more than ever!" She emphasized: "The Saarlouis location has a future - with and without Ford."

Because of the decision by Ford management on Wednesday not to build future electric cars in Saarlouis, but in Valencia, Spain, 4,600 Ford jobs and around 2,000 jobs at suppliers are at risk in Saarland.

After the announcement of the decision, Ford Europe boss Stuart Rowley had let it be known that the employees could possibly work for other Ford companies or be employed by other companies.

The SPD parliamentary group leader Ulrich Commerçon criticized Rowley, whom he also accused of "decadence", as being too vague and referred to the Works Constitution Act: "If Saarlouis is not to become a billion dollar grave for Ford, then now is the time for Ford to make serious offers return to the negotiating table.” In the coming weeks and months, the state parliament’s economic committee will demand answers from Ford management at special meetings: “We want to have clarification on what has been prepared in recent years and what the prospects are now.”

The CDU parliamentary group leader Stephan Toscani, as leader of the opposition, spoke of an “industrial policy emergency”.

Commenting on Rowley's comments about the future of Ford workers, he said: "This cannot be the last word of wisdom.

If it stays with these few vague details, there is a great danger that the Ford plant will die by installments.”

Toscani called for the establishment of a special committee based on the model of the cross-party so-called “steel faction” in the state parliament, which was founded in the 1970s because of the steel crisis.

He also criticized the Social Democrats for the planned ban on internal combustion engines from 2035: "Work to ensure that there is no one-sided ideological focus on electromobility." Toscani said it was "primarily the SPD state government that is now in of responsibility”: “Absolute majority means absolute responsibility.”

"We are happy to accept this role, but we are also happy to await your suggestions and are ready to discuss them with you," Commerçon replied.

Additional bodies in the state parliament are initially not necessary.

Rehlinger announced negotiations with Ford over areas previously owned by the company.

New, future-proof jobs should be able to be created there “immediately”.

She also expects "active support from Berlin and Brussels" as help for structural change in Saarland.

She confirmed that the Saarland offer was better than the Spanish one.

"We are angry because we have done everything and have to realize that the competition was never fair and we couldn't even win."

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AfD parliamentary group leader Josef Dörr said that the company was not to blame for the end of the Ford plant in Saarlouis: "The culprit is the federal government, which is ignominiously letting Saarland down." He claimed: "We should be de-industrialized and an agricultural country are on barren soils.” dpa

Source: merkur

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