New cuts Siemens: Due to the slump in demand in the drive division comprises CEO Kaeser again at the red pencil. Workers’ representatives react with sharp criticism.
The electronics group Siemens sweeps or displaced due to the slump in demand from the oil and gas industry around 2,500 jobs, including 2,000 in Germany. Affected by the cuts, the division process industry and drives is mainly in Bavaria. Approximately, half of the jobs should be eliminated or relocated, the company said on Wednesday in Munich.
A more intense competition in the oil and gas and metals and mining make a reorganization of capacities necessary explained Siemens. Employee representatives criticized the plans and announced resistance to.
relocation to Eastern Europe?
Specifically, are at the site Ruhstorf near Passau affected around 700 jobs in Bad Neustadt / Saale around 350, around Nuremberg 750 and in Erlangen more than 150 points. In Berlin it is to go to about 20 to 30 jobs. The existing today sites should be preserved and the job cuts will be implemented in a socially acceptable, said Siemens.
In essence, it was a matter of focus work content and the size of the manufacturing sites in Europe to be competitive in a permanently difficult market environment improve. In this example, production lines are concentrated. So could come both to shifts between the German sites, but also to Eastern Europe or Asia.
IG Metall has plans back
The IG Metall rejected the plans back immediately. Of the promised by Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser rest in the company there was nothing to feel criticized Bavarian IG Metall district head Jürgen Wechsler. Again reacting Siemens “reflexively and without ideas” with job cuts to market changes. Siemens Central Works boss Birgit Steinborn announced their intention to fight for every single job. “Relocations jeopardize the industrial and innovation in Germany. Siemens has a special responsibility,” says Steinborn.
The division builds among other large electrical drives for the oil, gas and mining industries. For some time, declines in demand from the oil and gas industry, as customers hold in the face of falling oil prices with orders back. Because of the problems, the Head of Division was replaced last year, now it is run by Jürgen Brandes. In Germany Siemensin employs the business with an annual turnover of EUR nine billion around 16 000 people, there are around 46 000 employees worldwide.
“Painful process of change”
Bavaria’s Economics Minister Ilse Aigner ( CSU) spoke of a “painful process of change” at Siemens and told the people concerned their support. She was with the company already about talking as avoided compulsory redundancies and where new opportunities for the affected workers can be developed.
Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser has many times stated cutbacks since taking office. Due to the corporate restructuring and the difficulties in the electricity sector and in other ailing divisions he ran a total of around 13 000 jobs
At the same time Siemens will also adjust. The transformation to digital industrial enterprises is driven forward, the company said. Given the expansion of investment in research and development, production and worldwide sales analysts expect in the coming years with at least 25 000 new hires per year worldwide, including about 3000 in Germany.
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