I agree and while I applaud the IGMetal for sticking up for the rights of union members, I fear that in the end it will only encourage management to find new and creative ways in the future from actually offering genuine employment contracts to people. I won’t name the company here but in my previous capacity as freelance consultant I worked with several large companies in the manufacturing industry in Germany. While visiting at a logistics center I asked the person giving the tour how many employees worked here. He said, “20”. I was confused, there were certainly more than 20 people on the floor. He explained, " there are 20 employees of this company. The rest are external service providers, second and third tier as well as short term workers. A total of 140."
Ten years previously, there were 160 company employees at that location.
There are several interesting articles in the Germany papers about the number of employees Siemens has been laying off in Nuremberg/Erlangen areas.
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