Armaments
Lürssen -military inventory – IG Metall wants to have a say in sales
The Lürssen-Militärwerften could be taken over by Rheinmetall. The employee representatives have so far been external in the negotiations. They insist on a say.
Before a possible takeover of the Lürssen-military inventory, the responsible union asks the negotiators to maintain collective agreements. “Without securing the location and employment as well as good collective agreements, no new model will work,” said Daniel Friedrich, head of the Metal Coast industrial union, the German press agency.
According to Friedrich, there are different tariff models in the Lürssen military division, or NVL for short: Some locations fall under the metal space collective agreement, others such as Wolgast (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) under a poorer house collective agreement. The union wants to work to ensure that the area collective agreement will apply uniformly in the future.
The Düsseldorf armaments group Rheinmetall is traded as a possible buyer of NVL. “Tariff bond is not a matter of course at Rheinmetall,” said Friedrich. The union experienced this, for example, during the past tariff interruptions in Bremen, where Rheinmetall is active near Lürssen. Since Rheinmetall benefits from state orders, tariff bond is appropriate.
Talks without employee representatives
Several media reported at the end of August that Rheinmetall wanted to take over the military division of the Bremen shipyard group in Lürssen. The companies did not confirm this on request. An internal letter shows, however, that consolidation talks run at NVL.
NVL includes four shipyards in northern Germany, including Blohm+Voss in the port of Hamburg, as well as locations in Bulgaria, Croatia, Egypt and Brunei.
According to Friedrich, IG Metall has not yet been involved in the talks. “We have many questions, especially about the future of the locations and the industrial policy concept,” he said.
Friedrich supports “national champion”
Friedrich has been promoting consolidation in German naval business for a while. An association of about NVL and Thyssenkrupps MarineStarte TKMS (Kiel) into a “national champion” can, in his view, strengthen the domestic business location. According to his statement, it cannot understand that the federal government does not get more. For example, the Federal Ministry of Defense is required.
dpa
Source: Stern
