Continental: Massive cutbacks with the help of the trade unions
Protest against the closure of the Continental plant in Karben, Hesse, 15 April 2021 (Photo WSWS)
What the IG Metall and IG BCE unions, as well as the media, are praising as a “solid negotiation result” and a “great success” is the sealing of a long-planned attack. To save at least €1 billion a year, 30,000 jobs will be eliminated throughout the company and in Germany alone 13,000 jobs will be cut.
Several plants are to be closed and the closures will only be delayed for a short time. The closure of the tyre manufacturing plant in Aachen, for example, has been postponed from the end of 2021 to the end of 2022. Last September, there were still 1,800 employees in Aachen and of these, hundreds are now already being laid off via severance agreements and non-renewal of temporary contracts. By the end of the year, only 500 workers will remain to wind up operations at the plant.
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A Fradley company has been thanked for an “extraordinary” donation to a campaign to provide computer equipment to children learning at home across Lichfield and Burntwood.
Cllr Doug Pullen (right) receiving the laptops from Continental Engineering Services’ Steve Rennals
The initiative was launched by Lichfield District Council leader Cllr Doug Pullen in response to the coronavirus lockdown which has seen the majority of children only able to take part in education remotely.
More than 100 pieces of equipment have already been handed out – but a donation of 41 laptops by Continental Engineering Services will help even more local youngsters.