This article is a great piece
…of fiction. :(
Unions (esp. IG Metall) are not mentioned even once?
As mentioned since last year in both German ands international media, the union's decided to bury their heads in the sand when Diess pointed out that the industry's move to electrification as well as technological and economic realities meant that 30K jobs are in for the chop.
That's not great news, of course, but it feels like they decided to shoot the messenger rather than try and work out ways in which those workers could reconvert or transition to other parts of the economy while they still can.
I feel bad for the workers that they have such shit unions. Those jobs will be lost one way or another and the company may well become a relic of the past, the way many once powerful companies have gone.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
