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Schweinfurt (dpa / lby) - IG Metall and the works council met in Schweinfurt with the industrial and automotive supplier Schaeffler to discuss its dismantling plans.
The management should be presented with an alternative concept to their planned restructuring on Friday, as Thomas Höhn from IG Metall Schweinfurt said in the morning.
"We assume that it will be very difficult in the negotiations."
Höhn initially did not expect a result.
The concept worked out by the works council together with IG Metall for the Eltmann (Haßberge district) and Wuppertal (NRW) locations as well as sub-areas of the Schweinfurt and Höchstadt (Erlangen-Höchstadt district) locations stipulates that significantly fewer employees than planned by the company management will work should lose.
Schaeffler announced last September that it intended to cut 4,400 jobs at 17 locations, mainly in Germany.
Six locations are to be closed, jobs relocated or sold.
The company management justified the step with necessities in the industrial transformation process and with the corona crisis.
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Schaeffler hopes that the package of measures will generate savings potential of 250 to 300 million euros annually, 90 percent of which should be realized in 2023.
This is offset by transformation costs of 700 million euros.
Höhn said the closure in Eltmann would affect around 450 employees.
According to Schaeffler, you will work in Schweinfurt in the future, albeit in a different position than before.
Wuppertal should close completely - around 800 people could lose their jobs.
Against the corporate plans, the workers wanted to mobilize on Friday during a nationwide day of action.
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Schaeffler announcement from September 2020