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Papenburg (dpa / lni) - At the ailing cruise ship builder Meyer-Werft in Papenburg an der Ems, management and workforce argue about the future workload.
The works council and IG Metall broke off talks after one day, the company announced on Wednesday.
The management had entered into negotiations with plans to cut 1,800 jobs, said works council chief Nico Bloem on request.
"It's a slap in the face of your colleagues."
Because the cruise industry is standing still in the corona pandemic, Meyer-Werft has to throttle the construction of its colorful ocean liners.
According to a spokesman, a delayed delivery was agreed with the shipping companies last year.
So only two instead of three ships should be completed annually.
In terms of calculations, the work should be reduced by 40 percent, the management announced.
That would affect 1,800 out of 4,500 jobs.
However, one hopes for intelligent solutions to keep job losses as low as possible.
"We have a good chance of securing the location as a whole if we act correctly and together in a timely manner," said Managing Director Thomas Weigend.
The shipyard has a permanent workforce of around 3,600 and employs a further 900 people in a service subsidiary in Papenburg.
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The workers' side demand a waiver of redundancies, said Bloem.
He criticized that the shipyard continued to outsource part of the work to contractors.
Instead, the permanent workforce is on short-time work.
"It's not that we don't have a job," said the works council chairman.
At the end of November, it was agreed through the mediation of state policy that there should be no redundancies for operational reasons until the end of June 2021.
For the time thereafter, a future collective agreement from 2021 to 2025 is to be concluded by the end of March.