Germany - Strike in automotive industry for transition agreement - January 27, 2010

Automotive Lightning (AL) has announced the relocation of production from Reutlingen to Brotterrode (also in Germany) and Jihlava (Czech Republic), directly affecting 130 jobs. The IG Metall union, works council and employees have asked for a transfer and social collective agreement, including the creation of a transitional company (duration one year, for training and qualification and to facilitate finding new jobs), and compensation for the workers affected by redundancies. As negotiations remained without results, 95% of the workers involved voted to go on strike for such an agreement, starting 26 January. IG Metall has called for solidarity and for avoiding any strike-breaker works.

English: message of EUCOBAN network of EMF / EFFAT / ETUF-TCL / EMCEF

German: http://www.tagblatt.de/Home/nachrichten/reutlingen_artikel,-Automotive …  

 

This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter, which presents up-to-date information on collective bargaining developments across Europe. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2009. All rights reserved. The ETUI is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. The ETUI is financially supported by the European Community. The European Community is not responsible for any use made of the information contained in this news section.

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