{"id":11687,"date":"2017-11-18T08:41:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T08:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=11687"},"modified":"2017-11-18T08:41:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T08:41:11","slug":"siemens-workers-vow-fightback-against-mass-job-cull-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/siemens-workers-vow-fightback-against-mass-job-cull-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Siemens workers vow fightback against mass job cull in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hundreds of angry Siemens workers protested at the industrial behemoth\u2019s historic Berlin factory Friday, in the first revolt against a mass jobs cull that unions have vowed to resist with all their might.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are Siemens and we aren\u2019t going anywhere,\u201d the crowd chanted, a day after the firm announced it would slash some 6,900 positions globally, mainly at its troubled power and gas unit.<\/p>\n<p>Germany will account for almost half of the job losses.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 600 jobs will disappear in the German capital alone, including at the sprawling Dynamowerk site which, among other things, makes the huge gas turbines that have fallen out of favor as countries switch to renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>The demo was called by Germany\u2019s powerful IG Metall union, which has slammed the layoffs as \u201cunacceptable\u201d and pledged to put up fierce resistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will take to the streets and we expect the mobilization to be spectacular because you can see the level of solidarity between the employees,\u201d union member Kris told AFP, declining to give his last name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you that the mood in the meetings is very combative,\u201d he added, sporting the union\u2019s red jacket emblazoned with the slogan \u201cSiemens metal workers. We fight like bears.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20171118\/5219b219-9111-4320-829e-7a10ed03ca87.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" \/><figcaption>Employees of German industrial conglomerate Siemens demonstrate at Siemens\u2019 famed \u201cDyanomowerk\u201d site in Berlin to protest against restructuring plans that include mass layoffs at the industrial group\u2019s gas and power unit in Berlin, on November 17, 2017. (Photo by AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Siemens unveiled the layoffs as part of a major overhaul as it grapples with falling orders in a changing energy landscape.<\/p>\n<p>But the \u201cpainful cuts\u201d Siemens says are necessary have sparked outrage after the conglomerate &#8212; which also makes trains, wind turbines and medical equipment &#8212; only last week reported flourishing financial results.<\/p>\n<p>Net profit for 2016-2017 rose by 11 percent year-on-year to 6.2 billion euros, it said.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the layoffs in Germany, Siemens plans to close its sites in Goerlitz and Leipzig, both in the country\u2019s economically weaker former communist east.<\/p>\n<p>Some 1,100 jobs are also set to go in the rest of Europe, while the United States will see 1,800 layoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Schulz, the leader of the Social Democratic Party that is set to go into the opposition after September\u2019s general election, called the job cuts an \u201coutright scandal.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a slap in the face for all those employees who worked so hard for the company and its profits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Source: AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of angry Siemens workers protested at the industrial behemoth\u2019s historic Berlin factory Friday, in the first revolt against a mass jobs cull that unions have vowed to resist with all their might. \u201cWe are Siemens and we aren\u2019t going anywhere,\u201d the crowd chanted, a day after the firm announced it would slash some 6,900 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11700,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11687\/revisions\/11700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}