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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28.11 - Manufacture of engines and turbines, except aircraft, vehicle and cycle engines
New offshoring locations
232 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
13 November 2014
Employment effect (start)
13 November 2014
Foreseen end date
Description
Caterpillar, German producer of ship engines, announced to cut 232 out of 1,100 jobs in Kiel. This is the result of long negotiations between management, works council and trade union IG Metall. Caterpillar will relocate motor production from Kiel to Rostock and China.
The job reduction shall be implemented in a socially acceptable manner and without operational dismissals. Solutions such as partial retirement or voluntary redundancy have been found for 126 employees. The remaining 106 will be offered to change to a transfer agency.
According to IG Metall, Caterpillar has focused too much on mass production and lost sight of developing new motors.
Sources
13 November 2014: Norddeutscher Rundfunk Online
14 November 2014: Kieler Nachrichten
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Caterpillar, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Germany, factsheet number 77870, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77870.
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