GM would require more employees to Strasbourg - July 21, 2010
The efforts already made by the employees of General Motors in Strasbourg will be sufficient? Apparently not. Because if the employees agreed Monday to a 70% reduction in their production cost in exchange for the resumption of their site, the management of General Motors Company (a company from the ashes of the former General Motors bankruptcy), now requires more.
Monday, employees had accepted a referendum to give up one third of their RTT, the incentive pay (an amount of 500 € per year), and any wage increases for two years. This is to be closer at the request of management, the costs of the Mexican plant that General Motors Company may entrust the production of its transmissions, instead of the factory in Strasbourg.Between the two plants, General Motors Company is expected to choose the next month, and then seal the future of employees Alsace.
But on Wednesday, after the plebiscite of employees for the purchase of the plant, General Motors Company extension with the unions and the list of "if". The first American manufacturer to add those conditions for resuming the annualization of working time and the normalization of weekends. In plain language this means that employees may be forced to work sometimes less, sometimes more, depending on orders from GM, without compensation to pay for overtime.
An uphill battle
Two requirements that unions say they have discovered Tuesday at a special council of business, and two days of the planned signing Thursday of the takeover agreement."They take us for idiots," growls the CFDT delegate, which supports the agreement Tuesday to recovery. "The conditions of management are becoming increasingly stringent, and one wonders if she really wants to keep the site active, concerned about its side delegate Thierry Stachel CFTC.
However, the management denied today that it amended its terms of recovery, and ensures that the unions were previously aware of every step. "The annualization was well known to the staff representatives and employees as it was under discussion for several weeks. This is one of the measures which have negotiated to give to others who could generate less revenue, "says management.
A further meeting will take place on Wednesday, during which the unions insist that management is satisfied with the measures adopted by referendum.A battle even more difficult than General Motors seems to be the only buyer in contention, and that the deadline for agreement is Friday.