Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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Volvo Trucks in Sweden is to cut 500-700 jobs when relocating the cab trim operations from Umea to Gothenburg. The measure affects workers in the area of the manufacturing operations.
The relocations are parts of Volvo Group’s new truck strategy to decrease manufacturing costs during the period 2013-2015.
The aim is to enhance the efficiency of manufacturing to improve competitiveness. The restructuring includes relocating cab trim operations from Umea to Gothenburg, to reduce the assembly of heavy duty trucks in Gothenburg to one line instead of two and to concentrate the assembly of medium duty trucks to Blainville, France.
Negotiations with trade unions have not yet started.
For a previous restructuring case see the job creation measures in Umea in 2013.
Eurofound (2013), Volvo Trucks, Relocation in Sweden, factsheet number 76008, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/76008.