Berlin --
Again bad news for the German Opel workers: they are about the ideas of parent company General Motors (GM), bear the brunt of the firm by the U.S. company employee savings contribution amount allowed for a total of 265 million euros per year.
As is clear from the preliminary concept of the group, held by the "Handelsblatt", the Americans want to collect only from the German staff, which constitute roughly half the workforce in Europe, about 177 million euros in savings. This will be done for example through the elimination of higher pay scales benefits.
Almost 70 percent of your savings contribution will thus come only from the approximately 25,000 employees in Germany. The staff had rejected the Opel prospective Magna already made promises of a savings package of 265 million euros, but they made the change in ownership of the Austro-dependent Canadian suppliers.
As part of the restructuring of GM also takes a swift closure of Belgium's Antwerp plant in the eye. As with the "top secret" declared GM's plan is clear, is a plant closure in the first half of 2010 intended. It would however still looking for a replacement for the expiring contract Astra in Antwerp, so a final decision had not yet fallen, according to the documents which were sent to the Federal Government.
