160 jobs saved for now
01.04.2010 Ι The 160 employees of the engineering operation Affeldt
GmbH have won their first jobs. Through its 48 hour long sit-they
could prevent the operation is being plundered. Since 26 March
continues the tradition of a provisional liquidator operating in
Neudorf. The staff has started work again and finished the short-time
work.
The Affeldt's employees responded last week and promptly occupied
their factory. The management had faced a surprise with the insolvency
of the company. The plant occupation lasted 48 hours - and it worked:
The staff could prevent valuable equipment and machinery were
transported for packaging equipment.
Employees get back to work and money
Since 26 March 2010 leads the lawyer Dr Klaus margins continue to
operate as a provisional liquidator. The short-time work was
suspended. The Affeldt-employed since received back to work and above
all, money. The IG Metall Unterelbe now calls a long-term prospects
for the employees. "This partial success was achieved in Affeldt only
through the solidarity of the IG Metall members. With the concrete
plant occupation prevents the further looting of the company," said
Uwe Zabel is happy.
Contractually guaranteed wage prospects for employees required
The IG Metall Agents of Lower Elbe is now demanding a collective
perspective contractually guaranteed to the workers and the
preservation of as many jobs. A social collective agreement must
guarantee a socially acceptable solution for all, Zabel. In the next
few weeks will begin the IG Metall negotiations with the provisional
liquidator and the works. By mid-May 2010, then have a result. "Here
it is still on the cohesion and solidarity of the workforce, so do not
have to pay for expensive crisis" demanded the agent.
The Chairwoman of Affeldt, Astrid Petersen, called also "the long-term
preservation of as many jobs." It would establish a perspective for
the 160 employees, "so do not have to pay the management errors with
mass unemployment."
Unfair methods of management
End of 2007 had been managing director Martin Köppert with its
subsidiary MKB purchased from Magdeburg in the metal shop. Since then
the company will be sucked into a "gradual process," said IG Metall.
The management has been increased by MKB-employees, which caused each
year about 500 000 € cost. Know-how has been outsourced from the
operation. "Something like this is now called Locust," said Uwe Zabel.
