The fate of the Planegg-Krailling music school will be decided on May 4th. On this day, a non-public general meeting will take place, at which a new statute will be voted on. It would take away the members’ previous voting rights and turn them into pure supporting members – which the chairwoman of the works council, Elisabeth Faithr-Diehl, now vehemently rejects in a sharp statement.
Planegg’s mayor Hermann Nafziger (CSU) and his Kraillinger colleague Rudolph Haux (FDP) are reacting to the ongoing disputes in the school by presenting new statutes. Both municipalities have therefore initially put the grants for the current year in the order of around 400,000 euros on hold.
The accounts of the conflict differ widely
Of course, the accounts of the disputes differ widely. While part of the board of directors around secretary Philipp Pollems and deputy chairwoman Stephanie Hamburger speak of “one person” – meaning the former SPD municipal councilor Thomas H. Roy – having represented “particular interests” and is probably aiming for the office of chairman, points out the chairwoman of the works council returned this. Faithr-Diehl sees secretary Pollems as primarily responsible: “Since his election, the board has tried by all means to restrict the right of co-determination of the employee representation and to abolish the works council by artificially creating a tendency company in order to be able to exclude large parts of the Works Constitution Act, so the co-determination rights of the works council.”
In the case of trend companies, the focus is not on profit, but rather on political, idealistic or artistic ideas and regulations. Faithr-Diehl: “One court case, for example, concerned the appointment of a new piano teacher, which took place without the works council having a say. This new appointment had nothing at all to do with Thomas Roy.” “An enormous amount of association funds were spent on legal advice instead of being used for the actual music school work.” A change in the statutes is unnecessary, the association is “fully functional”. The attempted “smashing” of the music school was “from the head with dubious motives. And the sad thing about it is: It’s not necessary at all.”