The deal to sell Opel alliance Magna and Savings Bank will be held during this week, despite protests from Britain and Spain, the Financial Times reported today, citing the chairman of the German trade union Opel Klaus Franz. We need to clarify some issues, but we are already close to completion, - said Franz.
Sources close to negotiations between Magna and the British government also reported that the positions of the parties relating to the production of Opel Astra at the main factory General Motors in Britain, visibly converged: We're close to, to sign the document on Wednesday or Thursday .
GM representatives of trade unions in the UK with the support of business and enterprise minister Lord Mandelson called Magna ensure annual production of 150 thousand cars Opel Astra up to 2015, while the capacity is 180 thousand pieces per year. The Canadian company, in turn, offered to reduce that number to 147,5 thousand cars a year, but the Magna is not planning to maintain this level until 2015, since this could adversely affect production in other countries, reports the FT, with reference to their sources.
It is, including the Polish Opel plant in Gliwice, where car production to begin in 2010, in addition, GM is considering the production of Opel Astra in Germany. However themselves representatives of the Canadian company refused to comment on the situation until the completion of the transaction, writes Financial Times.
According to the plans of Magna and Savings Bank, on the European Opel plants are assumed to reduce nearly 11 thousand workers, mainly in manufacturing in the UK, Spain and Belgium, which causes dissatisfaction among the unions and governments in these countries.
Germany expects to save German Plant Adam Opel GmbH, gave him financial support, including a possible restructuring of $ 4.5 billion euros. The union workers at Opel in Spain, in turn, opposed the transfer of production lines from its plant in Zaragoza at the factory in Germany.
negotiations between Magna, a Spanish trade union Opel and the Spanish Government to resume today in Madrid. According to Klaus Franz, the representatives of Spanish and German trade unions understand the need for adoption of a compromise: We must resolve, at last, this impasse. Why Ukraine lot of labor migrants from Armenia and Azerbaijan …
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