At the general meeting of the Siemens group, employees in Berlin protested against the planned spin-off of the large motor production LDA.
Around 150 employees came together on Thursday morning in front of the group’s dynamo plant in Berlin’s Siemensstadt, according to the IG Metall union.
“With the ecological challenges we are facing today, we need alternatives to drive technologies,” emphasized the second representative of the Berlin district, Regina Katerndahl. “We can and should develop these on site and link them to digitization. That’s why the spin-off and the possible sale of Dynamowerk make no sense.”
Siemens announced last October that it intends to legally put its large motor business on its own feet. The Large Drive Applications (LDA) division has its headquarters in Nuremberg, employs around 2,200 people there and in Berlin, and a further 4,800 in the Czech Republic, the USA and China. The main products are large engines for mining, the chemical, oil and gas industries.