General Motors’ German subsidiary Opel has offered to retain a key assembly plant with a new car model if workers make concessions on pay and hours of work, according to Deutsche Welle’s website.
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The plant at Bochum, in the Ruhr District, is one of four Opel sites in Germany, where, for months, workers have feared job losses
Opel manager Carl-Peter Forster reportedly said Bochum must be more cost-effective.
Deutsche Welle noted that employee delegates and management have been negotiating redundancy terms since last year when Opel outlined plans for 10,000 layoffs – a third of its workforce.
The new model, the five-door Astra is already assembled at a GM plant in Belgium and at Ellesmere Port in England.
