Tesla’s negotiation directly with the worker council led to the authorisation to allow more hours as the group is working around the clock on the Model 3 inverter production lines, which are scheduled to ship by the end of May.Īs we reported yesterday, Tesla also received a large shipment of robots for the Model 3 production lines in Fremont. As for the issue of compensation, it seems to come down to the details at this point – especially on whether employees will accept stocks or cash payments. The issue with job security after Tesla ending the relationships with Grohmann’s former client seems to have been resolved by Musk’s promise to keep jobs in Prüm. We now learn from sources at the company that Musk’s involvement reassured the workers and IG Metall is losing support for a strike and memberships. The union held a press conference yesterday while Tesla issued a statement to employees expressing that they prefer to work directly with the company’s Worker Council than with the union.
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It enabled the union the gain stronger footing in the company and reach about 50% membership in the workforce to start collective bargaining with the company.Īs we reported last week, we learned that CEO Elon Musk held a Q&A with the Tesla Grohmann employees earlier this month to hear their concerns and sent them a letter last week with an updated offer – we obtained the letter and included it in full below.
The transition sparked some concerns among some of the ~700 employees, which was accentuated when Tesla dropped all of Grohmann’s existing clients in order to have all hands on deck for the Model 3 production lines.Īround the same time, founder Klaus Grohmann retired, which Reuters is now presenting as him being “ousted” because he disagreed with the move, while Tesla says that the acquisition was part of his retirement plan. The takeover and expansion plans by Tesla have prompted IG Metall to demand that Tesla Grohmann Automation adopts collective wage agreements and job guarantees above and beyond an existing pledge to guarantee Grohmann jobs for five years.Ĭhristian Schmitz, head of IG Metall’s Trier branch, said concessions made by Tesla to guarantee jobs were encouraging but they were not the collective guarantees customary among German unionised workforces.įurthermore, key parts of the workforce at Grohmann were being paid around 25 to 30 percent below an industry-wide collective agreement for the metalworker electric industry sector, IG Metall said.While Tesla’s acquisition of Grohmann Engineering to create Tesla Advanced Automation Group gave an opportunity for German union IG Metall to make a push to unionize the workforce, the effort seems to be slowing down.Īfter CEO Elon Musk got personally involved following threats of a strike last week, sources at Grohmann told Electrek that the union is losing ground and some workers are even canceling their membership. Herzig said Grohmann had given Tesla priority over existing customers. Grohmann has helped Tesla rivals Daimler and BMW build production facilities for electric car batteries. Tesla has pledged to create an additional 1,000 jobs at Grohmann, which it has renamed Tesla Grohmann Automation, as it seeks to increase output to half a million vehicles next year from around 80,000 in 2016.
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