Industry and work
Siemens overall works council: Bäumler follows Steinborn at the top
After elevated years as the top employee representative, one of the most powerful women in the group appears. But you keep an important mandate.
There is a change at the top of the influential Siemens overall works council. After eleven and a half years in office, Birgit Steinborn resigns at the end of the month, as the committee reports. As the successor, her previous deputy Tobias Bäumler, who is a works council at the Karlsruhe site, was unanimously chosen as the successor. However, Steinborn keeps their position as deputy chair of the supervisory board.
“It was consistently eventful times and we were able to achieve a lot together for the employees,” says Steinborn about their term of office, into which large upheavals for Siemens fell – among other things, the spin -off of Siemens Energy and Siemens Healthineers, but also the fight against job cuts and factory closures.
Value compass instead of ideology
Most recently, Steinborn – who is one of the most powerful women in the group – had negotiated with the management to compensate for interests on the ongoing breakdown of a few thousand jobs in automation and a transformation agreement. Now it was “important to her to put the office in the hands of the new generation in good time before the upcoming works council elections”.
Steinborn’s successor Bäumler sees it as a “big challenge” to further develop the general works council “and to represent the interests of the employees”. The second chairman of IG Metall, Jürgen Kerner, said that Bäumler and his newly elected deputy Stefanie Lengfelder are “exactly the right ones to further develop the participation at Siemens in the future”. He praised Steinborn as “always unidologically, but always with a clear compass and great commitment to the concerns of the employees”. Personalities like you did IG Metall to what it was.
Persistent for the interests of employees
Siemens HR head Judith Wiese – the Steinborn on the other side again and again on the other side of a negotiating table – praised the outgoing overall works council chairman. They both had always had the success of people and the company in view from different perspectives, “said the manager and thanked for the” always constructive cooperation “.
Steinborn is considered a official, who rather represented the interests of the Siemens workers rather objectively, instead of punching the table with his fist – even during the eventful years of her term.
dpa
Source: Stern
