The Cleaver fell. The main automotive supplier in the world, Bosch announced on Thursday the abolition of 13,000 additional positions by 2030 in Germany, where its capabilities are little exploited compared to Chinese competition, which causes the wrath of the Metall Union of IG.
Almost 3% of the global workforce is affected by this plan, which affects the automotive division (“mobility”), forced to reduce its costs by 2.5 billion euros per year to safeguard its competitiveness, the group said.
This Cup, which represents almost 10% of the group’s workforce in Germany, will receive several factories, including closed planning in Waibhingen, near the group of the group in Stuttgart (Southwest), also attacked.
Bosch has already announced 9,000 posts since 2024, half of which have been carried out.
Manufacturers and automobile suppliers in Germany are reducing global demand, the increase in costs, Chinese competition and, more recently, the increase in US customs tasks.
The Union of the Ig Metall industry does not deny this reality, but expresses its “categorical” rejection of a “historical magnitude” and “without simultaneous guarantees for the safeguarding of sites in Germany”, by the voice of the president of the Council of Works of the Mobility Division, Frank Sell.
According to him, “the costs linked to this massive employment suppression plan should be invested in the development of sustainable economic products and models.”
Save competitiveness
For his part, the Bosch staff director Stefan Grosch points out that the group faces “huge challenges” with world car production that “remains slow” and Europe accusing “delay in automated electromobility and driving.”
These technologies progress faster in China and the United States, where they benefit from more incentives.
In the Bosch motorization division, particularly affected, “there is an important overcapacity and prices pressure is strong, especially comes from Asia,” explains its director Thomas Pauer.
The activity centered on electrical propulsion also suffers from overcapacity and remains slowed down by uncertainty about the end of thermal motors marketing in 2035 at European level, according to its director Marco Zehe.
Despite the measures announced on Thursday, “Germany and Europe are still central to Bosch,” said Stefan Grosch.
Other great manufacturers of German, Continental, ZF and Schaeffler teams have also announced thousands of positions of positions in recent months in the world.
In terms of manufacturers, the Volkswagen Giant offers 35,000 less positions in Germany in the flagship VW brand, the Daimler Truck 5,000 heavy vehicles.
Source: BFM TV
