“250,000 jobs at risk”
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Employees in Germany’s mighty car industry are increasingly worried the pending shift to e-cars will lead to massive job losses, report Karl-Heinz Büschemann and Thomas Fromm in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “We will get an enormous problem,” said Hartmut Geisel, vice head of industry supplier Bosch’s work council. Metalworkers’ union IG Metall says that out of a total of 880,000 car industry jobs in Germany, around 250,000 in conventional propulsion technologies are particularly affected. The union argues there will be a transition period of around 15 years “which must be used for an adaptation”.
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For more on the dramatic challenges for BMW, Daimler, and VW, read the CLEW dossier The Energiewende and German carmakers.
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