Germany
The German subsidiary of the Swedish state-owned power company Vattenfall is claiming that is has to make savings of €180 million. Energy union ver.di organised a protest march on 3 March against the company’s plans that could lead to 1500 job cuts. The company also wants to outsource some of its services with the prospect that workers will be covered by poorer collective agreements with the risk that some will lose €8000-€10000 a year in income. Swedish energy union SEKO has expressed its support for the German colleagues and has criticised Vattenfall’s plans when it made €1.8 billion in profits in Germany last year.
Read more at > ver.di (DE)
And at > SEKO (SE)
And at > EPSU (EN)
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