Tesla Giga Berlin Is on a Collision Course With Germanys Biggest Union

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Tesla is on a collision course with Germany's biggest union IG Metall regarding Giga Berlin and neither side is likely to back down. • Business Insider reports that while Tesla building its Giga Berlin factory in Germany, it hasn't yet made nice with the mighty auto union there. IG Metall will likely make life difficult for Tesla, which hasn't agreed to the industry's collective wage agreements. A battle with the union could threaten Tesla's ambitious plans for the European market. • The recruiting of staff is in full swing at Giga Berlin. But Tesla CEO Elon Musk seems to think little of the German social partnership, writes Thorsten Knuf in StZ. • IG Metall boss Jörg Hofmann had challenged Tesla months ago. The US automaker is not very union-friendly and has not responded to a letter from Hofmann even after months. I didn't have a discussion with Teslachef Elon Musk, Hofmann told WirtschaftsWoche. • But anyone who thinks today “that the participation of employees is not necessary has a relatively old way of thinking.” He assumes that Musk “needs skilled workers - and they are organized in IG Metall . Musk has now chosen Germany as the location, which we are happy about, where codetermination is a tradition. • In any case, one has experience with employers for whom trade unions and co-determination are “not their greatest favorites”. “I hope that we at Tesla in Grünheide will come to the standards in terms of pay, working hours, working conditions and co-determination, just like in other companies. Competition should be about the product and the quality. If not, we will think of answers, ”said Hofmann. After all, IG Metall has “the claim that we have the same working conditions and pay. • Shortly before the annual press conference at the end of January, Hofmann indicated that IG Metall was also suffering from the corona crisis. The “concrete, personal approach” to potential new members is “an essential prerequisite” for the union. “That is currently quite limited, but by no means impossible.” In addition, employment in Germany fell - from November 2019 to November 2020 by three percent. And there are still no temporary workers in it, who have also been massively cut in the IG metal industries. “Of course, that also has an impact on us,” said Hofmann. According to information from WirtschaftsWoche, the number of members in 2020 fell compared to the previous year. • However, the premium income could not be so strongly affected by the massive short-time work : “Fortunately, we have been able to obtain additional payments in many cases at the company and collective bargaining level. Short-time working means that we do not have so much premium declines, ”said Hofmann. • #Tesla • #GigaBerlin • #AutoUnions • #IGMetall • This is Armen Hareyan from Torque News. Please follow us at / torquenewsauto on Twitter and https://www.torquenews.com/ for daily automotive news. • Reference: • Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla... • GF4Tesla / channel

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