Works Council: "Bochum must remain the biggest plant"

"Steve Miller", you are telling a lot of nonsense and misinformation. What is this all about "Klaus Franz"?? Why are you only focusing on him? What is your interest? Your article mixes all up. Seems to be that you are interested in spreading this kind of rumours.

Dear Comrade,
A lot of things in your statement are facts, but I cannot accept that you play on the person! Specially Klaus Franz. I do personally know what kind of efforts he try to do to improve European and International solidarity. He cannot break steel with his hands and you cannot expect from him that he does not take care of his workers. The most important is that he does not do things on the account of others. That means: making secret agreements and give big unnessesary consessions over the table! I know that without Klaus (if you really want to name him) Antwerp would be closed allready and not only once!
In Solidarity,
Rudi

17.10.2007 15:25
Opel sichert Stammwerk in Rüsselsheim bis 2018

Opel sichert sein schlecht ausgelastetes Stammwerk in Rüsselsheim bis 2018 mit Stellenzusagen und konkreten Fertigungsaufträgen. Das haben die deutsche Tochter von General Motors und der Betriebsrat nach Mitteilung vom Mittwoch in einem weit reichenden Vertrag vereinbart. Der Autobauer hat für den Standort sechs Modellvarianten sowie die Cockpit-Fertigung zugesagt. Laut Betriebsrat steigt damit die Beschäftigtenzahl von derzeit 3300 auf 3450 Mitarbeiter bis 2012.
Alle Auszubildenden werden von 2008 an mit unbefristeten Verträgen übernommen und frühere Lehrlinge zurückgeholt. Älteren Mitarbeitern über 57 Jahren werden Vorruhestandsregelungen angeboten.
"Wir verjüngen die Mannschaft und rüsten das Werk für die Zukunft", sagte ein Opel-Sprecher. Das bislang nur zu 60 Prozent ausgelastete Werk soll 2008 wieder zum Dreischichtbetrieb zurückkehren, wenn dort wie vereinbart die gesamte GM-Mittelklasse gebaut wird. Dann rollen auch Modelle der schwedischen Marke Saab vom Band. Diese Vereinbarung von 2005 hat GM nun präzisiert. Nach Angaben aus Unternehmenskreisen handelt es sich dabei um drei Opel- und drei Saab-Versionen. Der US-Konzern stärkt nach Ansicht von Branchenexperten mit dieser Entscheidung die Position der deutschen Tochter und treibt die Neuordnung im Europa-Geschäft voran.
Nach dem massiven Stellenabbau und dem erfolgreichen Sprung in die schwarzen Zahlen will Opel nach eigenen Angaben konkurrenzfähiger werden. In Rüsselsheim werden die Modelle Vectra und Signum gebaut. Die Nachfrage nach diesen Mittelklassewagen war in den vergangenen Jahren stark gesunken. "Dieser Vertrag gibt allen Beschäftigten im Werke eine gesicherte Zukunft", sagte der Gesamtbetriebsratsvorsitzende Klaus Franz.
Quelle: http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2007-10/artikel-9244733.asp

Dear comrades even though Rüsselheim Plant is working with small capacity nevertheless Klaus Franz got the firm promise for a continued employment till 2018. Other plants like Antwerp, Bochum, Trollhättan and Ellesmere Port have to reduce their employees drastically (Antwerp approximately 40% and Bochum approximately 30%) and got no firm promise for a continued employment till 2018.
Let me tell something to the apprentices: Klaus, watch your mouth. You pervert the truth. The truth is much more disturbing. The apprentices will go into firm in question called WORKNET. They have to leave Opel GmbH. That's a fact.
All other plants are working more effective than Rüsselsheim Plant but GM preferred Klaus Franz and Rüsselsheim Plant. That’s not a fair game. I think first they close Trollhättan, than they close Antwerp. And who will be the winner in this unfair game? You are right: Klaus Franz.
I have a different comprehension when I will read our slogans like “"Share the Pain" and "Fighting back makes a difference”. Klaus doesn’t share the solidarity with other plants. That’s a fact. I’m disappointes and sadly.
Steve

It`s all politics!everyone knows that trollhättan was the better factory and should have "been the winner" of the future produktion of saab!
we are only fighting eachother but the future are allready desided!!
Politics friends politics!!!

No one at the Ellesmere Port plant has signed of any agreement on Delta and will not do so until a framewok agreement is signed the guarantees a future for ALLthe plants invoved on the Delta group and gives fair allocation to ALL plants and also there is a framework agreement on outsourcing.

In Bochum is no agreement negotiated or signed. Only the management has been presented an agreement.

Dear comrades,
I can tell thesame thing about Antwerp. There is NO AGREEMENT negotiated or signed !!!
In Solidarity,
Rudi

A very strange leaflet. Trollhättan is not mentioned as future Delta-plant. But when telling us that all other plants already signed local contracts, Sweden is mentioned. According to my information there is no local contract signed in Trollhättan. This is a real disinformation leaflet of the Bochum works council.

Oh man, every time the same sh.. Drawing a horror scenario that the shop stewards and the ordinary worker on the shop floor believes that they are doing their best. Why is not even mentioned that there has been negotiated a European Framework by the European Works Council of GM?

Seems to be because this is the official leaflet of the Works Council in Bochum. Unfortunately, the leaflet is telling not the truth to the Bochum workers. No agreements have been signed or finalized by the other Delta plants. The only plant which seems to have a final local agreement is Bochum. In Sweden no local agreement exists. The union sticks to the implemented changes from the Epsilon agreement and resists to all outsourcing measures until the European Framework Agreement has been signed as well as a European Outsourcing Agreement which is currently negotiated by the Spanish employee representatives. In UK the unions have presented some commitments of the "horror catalogue" to the workforce and the workforce agreed to it. But there is no finalized local agreements because the unions will not sign anything before the European Delta Framework Agreement has been signed as well as a European Outsourcing Agreement. The main struggle in UK goes about the outsourcing because the unions are not willing to accept any outsourcing without a European Framework Agreement. In Antwerp no local agreement has been signed but a local "letter of intent" was negotiated. the unions will not sign anything without a European Framework Agreement as well as a European Outsourcing Agreement. In Gliwice the union and works council have their usual bargain round. They are fighting for a big wage increase and to make 450 temporary Adecco workers permanent. They will sign nothing without a European Framework Agreement. A European Framework Delta has been negotiated and is initialed. It will give guarantees to every Delta plant including Antwerp for the lifecycle of the new products. Local outsourcing agreements exists at this point of time only in Bochum.
It seems to be that the Chairman of the Bochum Works Council tries to negotiate a local agreement which includes special commitments of models and capacity utilization and Management asks for many cncessions for it. What's about the European negotiations. What's about European solidarity for the other plants? Why was nobody informed about these negotiations? Why was this leaflet not send to the other plants?

"Since spring 2007 local negotiations about the GM/Opel demands have been started in Bochum...."

Is this true???? Who have more information about this statement in den blog