Following the announcement of job cuts
Schaeffler employees protest against job cuts
Numerous employees of the automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler protested on Wednesday against plans for staff cuts and plant closures at the Franconian family-owned company.
Around 1500 employees took part in a protest at the Schweinfurt site and around 200 Schaeffler employees took part in a "funeral march" at the company headquarters in Herzogenaurach, according to trade unionists from IG Metall. At the Eltmann site in Lower Franconia, several hundred Schaeffler employees marched to the market square.
Protest events are planned for the afternoon at many other Schaeffler locations, including Ingolstadt, Luckenwalde (Brandenburg) and Wuppertal. The actions are directed against the company management's plan to cut around 4,400 jobs by the end of 2022 and also to close entire plants or put them up for sale - including Eltmann, Luckenwalde and Wuppertal.
Like many other suppliers, Schaeffler is struggling with the structural crisis in the automotive industry. The coronavirus pandemic has now caused the company to slide into the red. IG Metall criticized on Wednesday that the package of measures was primarily aimed at the industrial sector, which was actually doing well, rather than the automotive division. "The majority of the 4,400 jobs are to be cut in the industrial sector," said Thomas Höhn from IG Metall in Schweinfurt.
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