Workers blame Nestle for greed – Stadt & Kreis news Ludwigsburg

Half of the workforce of the Ludwigsburg factory mobilizes for the preservation of their jobs – 12,000 accumulated overtime

Ludwigsburg The Nestlé factory staff in Ludwigsburg does not want to accept the announced closure of the site without a fight yesterday afternoon, the company committee is organizing a public works meeting in front of the factory on the west side from the Ludwigsburg station Approximately 50 of the approximately 100 employees were working with T Whistles, union flags and placards saying "people in front of the margin" gathered to protest the loss of their jobs. The workers also invited representatives of the municipal councils to protest.

The people involved accuse the world's largest food company of wanting to close the Ludwigsburg site, although this is not economically necessary. "That's Nestlé's greed," said Ludwigsburg's chairman of the business committee, Enes Sedic. The group is trying to increase sales performance from 15 to 18.5% and wants to do it at the expense of the workforce, criticized the president of the state of Baden-Württemberg, l & # 39; food union Genuss-Gaststätten (NGG), Uwe Hildebrandt

. Nestlé boss, Béatrice Guillaume-Grabisch, notably defended the decision to close down Ludwigsburg at the end of the year, with sales of the main malted coffee product having fallen from 4,000 tonnes per year to 970 tonnes in the course of the year. last 25 years. However, she was told by the staff that the group was not making any effort to counter the advertising. And the factory was busy, accumulating 12,000 overtime hours and about 2,200 vacation days remaining.

The director rejected allegations from the union side that Nestlé wanted to cut 3,200 jobs in Germany. In the last twelve months, only 442 jobs have been canceled and over the next few months it plans to cut another 554 jobs. In addition, the group has invested about one billion euros in Germany over the past ten years.

Although Guillaume-Grabisch expressed his appreciation to the employees in his speech ("They do a good job"), she found among the employees little attraction. This also applies to the statement that management wants to strive to reconcile as much as possible the interests and the social plan. "I do not want money, I want work," shouted a worker, fearing that at the age of 51, she would have little chance in the labor market. job.

When and how does social negotiation begin between employers and employees? While William Grabisch called the workers' representatives in Ludwigsburg to start negotiations quickly, they want to negotiate with the general contractor committee and the NGG. Because even in other works, Nestle wants to save.