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By Victoria Waldersee and Christina Amann BERLIN (Reuters) -Ford will decide by mid-February how many jobs to cut in Europe, a German union said on Tuesday, as reports surfaced that BYD and car contract manufacturer
The IG Metall is not only conducting a struggle against wage increases. It is actively advocating and implementing wage cuts and cheap labour in an industry where workers were once among the best paid.
At the factory meeting on Wednesday, the works council and IG Metall union, supported by Saarland’s Minister President Anke Rehlinger (Social Democrats, SPD), will do everything they can to seal the plant’s closure.
We can only be successful here in Saarlouis if we regard our struggle to defend the plant as part of the growing resistance around the world.
Workers showed little interest in last Thursday’s factory meeting at Ford Saarlouis. Asked what they expected from the meeting, most workers answered, “Nothing!”