at the beginning of may, the workforce had been informed at the factory in grebenhain, the activities should be shifted to other locations of the group. Justified the measure with declines in the Display market, also in consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Verdi sees the possible closing of the Location is also a consequence of the 2019 completely botched attempt to sell the complete STI group with more than 2,000 employees. The public announcement of the intention to sell has led to the evaluation of Verdi to confidence and job losses at major customers from the food industry and was a role model for the competitors in the Display market, to get market shares. "The withdrawal of the announcement in December 2019, could not reverse this trend," writes Verdi.

Now, a month later, the group, according to information from Verdi, apparently, more to his plans, at least parts of the production from the plant in Grebenhain to other group to shift locations. The Union has therefore asked on Friday the management of the STI group to negotiate a collective agreement and requires a collective compensation scheme for the case of redundancies. In Grebenhain, there are currently approximately 280 Employees in the group, with other locations in the state of Hesse, Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia as well as in the Czech Republic a total of about 2,000.

But Verdi continued to hope that the jobs in Grebenhain can be preserved. "We hope that the works Council and management agree on in the ongoing negotiations on a reconciliation of interests and social plan, nor a receipt of the site", says Manfred Moos from Verdi Hesse. He recalled that the workers in Grebenhain have refrained for three years from 2015 to 2017 to secure the location and employment, the Christmas bonus. "At the time, the promised investments in the site are not carried out in accordance with Change in the Management, unfortunately, far from. Now the employees will pay for obvious bad decisions of the top management of the colliery and have to fear for their jobs." (ld/pm)

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