Confronted with increasing competition on its markets, the world’s number one for electric household appliances, Swedish Electrolux, announced last December the closing
of the AEG site in Nuremberg at the end of 2007 and the relocation of the production in Poland and Italy. To protest against the company’s decision, employees are on strike since January 20.
To increase the pressure on Electrolux, IG Metall threatened to extend the social conflict to the Rothenbourg oder Tauber production...