Gestamp: the Spanish automotive supplier sets up a EWC

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On 29 January 2015, the company Gestamp, a Spanish automobile equipment manufacturer which employs close to 19,000 people in Europe, has signed an agreement to set up a European works council. The agreement represents a first for Spain in this sector.
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Gestamp developed greatly in 2011 with the acquisition ofThyssenKrupp Metal Forming (TKMF), a subsidiary of ThyssenKrup. “The cooperation between Spanish trade unions and IG Metall created the basis for this negotiation”, Javier Urbina Sanchez-Guerrero, the expert commissioned by the European trade union federation IndustriALL Europe to assist the SNB and future trade union coordinator of the committee, explained to Planet Labor. “The negotiations were lengthy, lasting three years. But rather t

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