After several hours of negotiations and five weeks of strike, the trade union IG Metall and the management of AEG, a subsidiary of Electrolux, worked out an agreement to compensate the 1750 employees threatened with redundancy. The Swedish group Electrolux, number one in the world for electric household appliances, had announced last December the shut-down of the AEG site in Nuremberg in 2007 at the latest, and the relocation of production in Poland and Italy. (Réf. 06191)
The compromise signed in the night of 27 to 28 February, envisages a progressive closing of the factory of Nuremberg, a compensation amounting to 1,8 months of wages per year for seniority and the right, for twelve months, to vocational training paid on the basis of a 35 hours work-week.
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