General Motors’ Opel unit has rejected a plea from a labor representative to reconsider its plans to cut 2,800 jobs at its Bochum plant by 2007.
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“There are clear numbers and an agreement with the works council. That will be adhered to,” Ulrich Weber, a spokesman for Adam Opel AG told the Associated Press (AP).
Reiner Einenkel, head of the works council in Bochum, told AP that the council would fight for every job.
“We have always said that the 2,800-figure has to be corrected and expect from the management that it showed the grace to think again,” Einenkel said.
He reportedly said a report in the Focus weekly that the works council wanted to save 1,000 more jobs was incorrect, but named no alternative figure.
AP noted that GM announced plans last year to cut as many as 10,000 jobs at Adam Opel in Germany to improve its profitability. GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner said last week at the Frankfurt motor show that the company is about halfway through that plan.
