The withdrawal of the Japanese carmaker, Mitsubishi, planned for the end of 2012, gave way to a rather special agreement: the 1,500 staff of the Nedcar plant will receive 100 percent of their salary for two years, instead of 70 percent, before BMW reopens. (Ref. 120453)
This extraordinary agreement is the result of a long union struggle to maintain employment in the Netherlands’ last car plant, which still employed 5,000 people in 2000. Maxime Verhagen, Minister of Economic Affairs, put himself out to find a buyer when, on February 6, 2012, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) announced that it was leaving. Unions insisted so that employment at the Born factory, Limburg, be saved. In 2006, a “mobility center” helped quickly redeploy 1,000 Nedcar employees af
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