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12 December, 2005
German affiliate IGBCE focuses its attention even harder on Continental’s broken promises. On 6 December, 30,000 workers of the tyre maker held stop-work meetings at 26 locations throughout Germany to protest the announced closure of the Stöcken plant in Hannover and the resulting loss of 320 jobs by year-end 2006.
IGBCE agreed with Continental on more flexible working rights, including work weeks of 40 hours without additional pay, in exchange for a pledge of no job cuts. Continental Chief Executive Manfred Wennemer broke that pledge last month with the announcement on the fate of the Stöcken plant.
IGBCE will now terminate ten programmes inside Continental that were established jointly with the company to save some €42 million annually.