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No reprieve for Michelin’s German plants

Author: Stephen Goodchild Comments: 0
It now seems a done deal: Michelin will no longer produce new truck tyres in Germany and will lay off workers at its sites in (from top left) Karlsruhe, Trier and Homburg (Photos: Michelin)

Michelin has dashed union and works council hopes of reversing the planned end of truck tyre production in Germany, with company management rejecting a more than 100-page document outlining alternative concepts for maintaining the plants. The IGBCE union and works councils presented the document to the tyre maker last month; according to the union, Michelin management rejected all proposals at the beginning of March.

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