Airbus SE workers have begun a series of walkouts at factories, escalating a dispute over the plane-maker’s move to restructure aircraft-parts operations in the country. Union IG Metall opposes Airbus’s plan to streamline subsidiaries that make wing and fuselage sections. The restructuring involves the creation of new in-house companies around Premium Aerotec and France-based Stelia Aerospace, while a parts unit will be hived off and sold. IG Metall said Airbus isn’t prepared to reach a fair package for all employees and locations.
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