The dark clouds over Bosch don’t want to move on, because thousands of jobs are now threatened with extinction. An escalation can hardly be avoided. All information about this can be found in this article.
At Bosch, thousands of jobs are now at risk of being eliminated. This is a difficult time for employees and escalation can hardly be avoided.
Bad news doesn’t stop
The new year began with a real flood of bad news for Bosch employees. The company plans to cut more than 3,000 jobs in the automotive industry, the sector with the highest sales, over the next few years. The job cuts now also affect the electrical division. There should also be a lot of painting here. The technology group has also announced further savings. The subsidiary BSH, which produces household appliances, and the mechanical engineering company Bosch Rexroth in Schweinfurt will also be affected by job cuts in the future. Not only the employees, but also the works council and IG Metall are horrified.
The works council and IG Metall accuse Bosch management of misconduct
On March 20th, the works council and IG Metall called for a nationwide protest. An important reason is that the job cuts were not decided because the group is doing poorly financially and therefore has to make savings. Under the motto “Stop clear-cutting at Bosch!”, IG Metall is presenting the concrete plans to the company. Thousands of jobs would be threatened with extinction if it were implemented. And the union becomes concrete. According to the planning, “1,500 jobs in Feuerbach and Schwieberdingen, 950 jobs in Leonberg, Abstatt, Renningen and Hildesheim, 500 jobs in Reutlingen, Salzgitter and Ansbach” will fall victim to the reduction. And this is not the only problem. The union accuses the management of intentionally breaking off negotiations, terminating 40-hour contracts at the Feuerbach and Schwieberdingen locations and violating company agreements in Ansbach and Bühl.
The works council and IG Metall are therefore calling on the management to return to the negotiating table and find solutions together with the employees and not against them. In addition, the management should stick to the agreements and stop terminating the 40-hour contracts. However, Stefan Hartung, the Bosch boss, only sees an approximate magnitude in the circulating figures for job cuts. He confirms that they want to act in the interests of the employees and have planned to make the job cuts socially acceptable. However, the situation for employees currently remains unsatisfactory and uncertain.