Close-to-perfect agreement. It all started in September with a routine operation: the management was preparing to change the Mercedes S-Class in 2013. Since changes like this usually lead to a drop in demand, the management and the WC met to negotiate a production cut for the 4th quarter of the year and rapidly came up with guidelines: only one team will produce the S-Class until the new model is launched. The other teams will be affected to producing the C-Class and some temporary workers will be sent home. “The agreement was almost perfect when the management started dropping new conditions” the EWC’s newspaper for the Mercedes Benz plant in Sindelfingen, “Brisant,” edited by the IG-Metall.
always try to reach a compromise where everyone saves appearances. (Ref. 120619)
Close-to-perfect agreement. It all started in September with a routine operation: the management was preparing to change the Mercedes S-Class in 2013. Since changes like this usually lead to a drop in demand, the management and the WC met to negotiate a production cut for the 4th quarter of the year and rapidly came up with guidelines: only one team will produce the S-Class until the new model is launched. The
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