FCA-PSA to buyout (for now)4,100 workers in Germany by 2029

[AlexB]

Opel will cut up to 4,100 jobs, joining rivals around the globe in retrenching amid a sales slowdown and technological disruption.


The cuts will be focused at German sites in Ruesselsheim, Eisenach and Kaiserslautern, where Opel will reopen a voluntary leave program for employees to eliminate 2,100 positions by 2025, the company said in a statement Tuesday.


Additionally, the carmaker agreed with labor representatives to have the option to cut another 2,000 positions in two tranches in the coming years, a spokesman said.

“This agreement creates a further considerable improvement of our competitiveness,” Opel Chief Executive Officer Michael Lohscheller said in the statement. The company will also invest more money into the Rüsselsheim plant.

Opel Targets German Plants to Cut 4,100 Jobs and Revamp Business

PSA Group’s German car-making division Opel will cut up to 4,100 jobs, joining rivals around the globe in retrenching amid a sales slowdown and technological disruption.

www.bloomberg.com

Voluntary Leave Program = Employee Buyout
As many of us predicted,majorty of workforce reduction will center around Britain and Germany.

 

[pumadog]

As Rüsselsheim gets several versions of the next Astra and job guaranties until 2029, what's left for Ellesmere Port?

 

[Bili]

As Rüsselsheim gets several versions of the next Astra and job guaranties until 2029, what's left for Ellesmere Port?

They will be fired?

The latest rumor from Ellesmere Port is that Astra is postponed. I doubt it. It just doesn't make sense to have Astra built at two factories. There is no volume for it.

Fire Brits and keep some German jobs.

IMO 4100 job loss in a decade is not much.

 

[KrisW]

Brexit has sealed the fate of Opel's UK sites. A car at Astra's price point can't afford to have any uncertainty in its supply chain - now that the combined group has spare capacity in Italy too, there's no reason to risk starting a project in the UK.

 

[Deckard Cain]

As Rüsselsheim gets several versions of the next Astra and job guaranties until 2029, what's left for Ellesmere Port?

Closure.
That's the consequence of what the Brits voted for a few years ago.

 

[pumadog]

I think so too. But I just found an article that says PSA intends to build the car at two plants. Rüsselsheim got the 5-door and Sports Tourer already.

Opel/Vauxhall Astra sales launch to go ahead as planned despite Brexit uncertainty, PSA says

Workers at the Vauxhall plant in Ellesmere Port, England, were told that production of the Astra would be delayed because of the continuing uncertainty around Brexit but PSA said the launch will go ahead as planned.

europe.autonews.com

I doubt there's a 3-door coming. And if they build a coupé it won't fill an own plant …

 

[Bili]

@pumadog

Next gen Astra will be offered as 5 door hatchback and wagon. I'm not aware of any other version. So what's the point of using 2 factories?

In other words British workers are fired although they still don't know it.

 

[pumadog]

Seems like that. The overall sales of ca. 140,000 Astras 2019 don't justify a 2nd factory either.

 

[Mopar392]

That was expected or at least for me.
I was one of the employees affected by my company’s merger.

 

[Freshforged]

Seems like that. The overall sales of ca. 140,000 Astras 2019 don't justify a 2nd factory either.

and once they figure it out, it will be somebody elses fault of course.