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The tire industry in Germany is in crisis.
The Michelin factories are also affected.
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The French tire manufacturer wants to close its factories in Trier and Karlsruhe and stop producing truck tires in Homburg, Saarland.
Now the end for the works is final.
Frankfurt/Main - The announced closure of several plants in Germany has been sealed at the French tire manufacturer Michelin.
The IG BCE union has failed in its attempts to prevent the closure of the locations in Trier and Karlsruhe and to mitigate job losses there and in Homburg in Saarland.
The IG BCE in Hanover announced that the group had rejected all proposals from the employee side to preserve the plants and some of the jobs.
The employees in Karlsruhe, Homburg and Trier have been informed that Michelin is sticking to its restructuring measures.
More than 1,500 jobs are affected.
Future prospects for employees in the negotiation
According to the union, negotiations to balance interests and for a social plan have already begun.
“We will do everything we can to ensure that Michelin lives up to its often-vaunted social responsibility.
Anyone who does not want to continue to run the locations with good concepts must now put the necessary funds on the table for reasonable future prospects for the affected employees,” demanded Matthias Hille, IG BCE group advisor for the company.
Michelin announced in the fall that it would gradually close the traditional plants in Karlsruhe and Trier by the end of 2025 and stop producing new truck tires and semi-finished products in Homburg.
Only the retreading of truck tires will be retained at the Saarland location.
More than 800 jobs will be lost there alone.
Michelin also plans to relocate a customer center from Karlsruhe to Poland.
The cuts were justified by low-cost competition from Asia and rising costs.
The IG BCE tried to prevent the worst cuts.
She had made proposals for the creation of competence centers, more specialized production, the consolidation of plants and partial job cuts in order to reduce costs.
The tire industry in Germany is in crisis: a third of 12 plants are to be closed.
The US group Goodyear also wants to close two plants in Fulda and around Fürstenwalde in Brandenburg.
dpa