Next Monday, 9.30 a.m., on the factory premises of Lenzing AG: While the company’s supervisory board will hold its meeting, works councils and trade unionists will start a rally. From the company restaurant you move to the administration building and stop there at 9.45 a.m. with a company meeting with up to 1000 expected employees. Stephan Gruber, Chairman of the Employee Council, announces that the top of the company will hear that. Upper Austria’s Chamber of Labor Andreas Stangl and Mayor from the region will also be there.
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The reason for the rally: 500 other jobs should be omitted at the fiber manufacturer – mostly at the Lenzing headquarters, where 3100 people are currently employed, some in Heiligenkreuz (Burgenland, 300). This is how the plans of management provide for how Gruber explained the OÖN Friday morning. “It is a disaster. For Lenzing, it is the fourth mining program in recent years,” says Gruber: “Now it is going to be done. Non-sacrifices are probably not much to achieve.”
Negotiated social plan
This time, mostly employees and employees in the administration are said to be affected as well as partly workers. 200 jobs will be deleted this year. 300 more will fall victim to outsourctions in the next two years. Administrative activities could be done in India and the Czech Republic in the future.
However, the employee representatives want to achieve something with a resolution. It should be invested instead of shortened. Current services cost money. “We don’t understand that. The Lenzing location writes black,” says Gruber. But a social plan has already been negotiated.
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Source: Nachrichten
