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Papenburg (dpa / lni) - According to the works council, the ailing cruise ship builder Meyer-Werft on the Ems is cutting more than 600 jobs.
The employee representatives named this number on Monday in Papenburg after discussions with management.
The company management did not comment on the numbers.
There is an offer that has yet to be negotiated, said a spokesman.
According to IG Metall, the management also demands that every employee should work 200 hours of extra work without pay.
There will only be wage increases if Meyer-Werft again achieves profits of a certain amount.
Due to the standstill of the cruise industry in the corona pandemic, the family-run shipyard has not lost any orders.
But it has to build its ocean liners more slowly and save 1.2 billion euros over the coming years.
Around 4,500 people work at the shipyard and the subsidiaries in Papenburg.
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"We will not accept this and fight for every job and every person," said works council chairman Nico Bloem.
The employee side suspects that the management wants to replace large parts of the permanent workforce with cheaper contract workers during the crisis.
At the same time, the shipyard announced on Monday that the construction of a new cruise ship for the British shipping company P&O Cruises had begun with the start of burning.
The "Arvia" is powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) and, like its sister ship "Iona", which was completed in 2020, is designed for more than 5000 passengers.
The start of burning, the cutting of the first steel plates, is celebrated in modern shipbuilding like the keel-laying used to be.
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