Austerity
ZF protests: more than 4,000 people expect the works council
It rumbles tremendously at the battered car supplier ZF. The works council does not want to accept any further austerity measures. Now the workforce wants to take to the street.
The staff of the battered car supplier ZF plans to set an example against further austerity measures on Tuesday. Around 4,000 participants are expected at the Group’s Hall alone, as a spokesman for the overall works council announced. In the city on Lake Constance, the employees therefore move through the city center in front of the company headquarters. There are also company meetings there. Similar actions are planned at other locations, including in Saarbrücken and Schweinfurt.
The recent escalation was triggered by the management of the management around ZF boss Holger Klein: According to the works council, further cuts were announced at company meetings around two weeks ago. Employees should forego money, and operational terminations are therefore no longer excluded. This “caused great unrest”.
By the end of 2028, ZF plans to delete up to 14,000 jobs in Germany – that would be every fourth ZF job in the country. 5,700 have been eliminated since the beginning of 2024. The working hours of many employees were also shortened. ZF presented its half -year figures on Thursday.
dpa
Source: Stern
