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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedGM Europe changes stall pay talks at Opel.(News)(Brief Article)
Automotive News Europe, June, 2004 by Hamprecht, Harald
Byline: Harald Hamprecht Automobilwoche
Wide-ranging changes in General Motors Europe's structure have stalled negotiations for a new pay agreement at Opel's plants in Germany.
Opel's management is demanding that employees agree to a 10 percent reduction in labor costs within the next five years.
Opel's board of directors wants to achieve the reduction by increasing working hours instead of lowering wages.
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Carl-Peter Forster, new GM Europe president, said: "The union has made us an offer which includes producing the Zafira successor in Russelsheim. We are thinking ...
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