Friedrichshafen (dpa -AFX) – The works council of the car supplier ZF, which is in deep red numbers, wants to protest against further fun measures. On July 29, a march and a rally with 5,000 employees in front of the group headquarters in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance were planned, said a spokesman for the works council. Several media had previously reported.
The resistance is directed against the executive floor, which has announced cuts in over -tariff services, the spokesman continued. The protest is planned on the day of the Supervisory Board meeting.
“The additional cuts come out of the blue, the confidence in the board is shaken,” said overall manager Achim Dietrich to the “Handelsblatt” and other media on Tuesday after an interrupted company meeting in the Friedrichshafen trade fair. According to his statement, drastic austerity measures for the commercial vehicle division were presented there.
“Do not want to pay for management errors anymore”
According to the works council spokesman, thousands of employees should do without money. Previously, working hours had been shortened. “We no longer see to pay for management errors without being presented to us,” said the spokesman.
The company reacted with incomprehension. “The ZF workforce knows that ZF has to react to the difficult economic and geopolitical environment with further cuts,” said a group spokesman on request. The kind of these cuts is discussed with the employee representative.
ZF: Avoid operating dismissals with savings measures
The spokesman emphasized that “the more soft personnel measures such as lowering working time we can agree, the sooner we will be able to avoid operating dismissals.” The fact that jobs would have to be reduced was clearly communicated years ago. “Also in July 2024, this was the subject of communication to restructure restructuring in Germany.”
By the end of 2028, the company plans to delete up to 14,000 jobs in Germany, that would be every fourth workplace in the country. 5700 have been eliminated since the beginning of 2024. “The ZF is not saved by saving, so we don’t come out of the downward vigor,” said Dietrich. At the end of the month, ZF submits its half -year figures.
ZF, one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers, had written deep red numbers last year. The loss had been just over a billion euros. In 2023 the company had made a profit of 126 million euros ./bak/dp/he