{"id":1591,"date":"2024-08-13T08:20:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T08:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/massive-job-cuts-in-the-german-automotive-and-supplier-industry\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T08:20:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T08:20:14","slug":"massive-job-cuts-in-the-german-automotive-and-supplier-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/massive-job-cuts-in-the-german-automotive-and-supplier-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive job cuts in the German automotive and supplier industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A job massacre is unfolding in the German automotive and supplier industry. Jobs are being cut continuously, more and more every week. While economic experts and stock market analysts are sounding the alarm and worrying about the dividends of their rich customers, the IG Metall union remains silent and is enforcing the attacks on the ground.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative ma0 overflow-hidden  dn-p\">\n<div class=\"relative overflow-hidden\">\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"db relative center\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/c2cbd529-d94b-4610-aac2-fbb51c1a792e?rendition=image1280\" style=\"max-height:100%\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"db avenir f7 f6-m lh-title black-60 tc pt3 ph3\">10,000 protest against job cuts at Bosch in Gerlingen near Stuttgart in March 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The large corporations had begun to use the switch to electric vehicles to further reduce costs\u2014i.e., maximise profits\u2014by cutting jobs and passing on costs to suppliers, whose existence is threatened as a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2024\/08\/09\/lnbo-a09.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A job massacre is unfolding in the German automotive and supplier industry. Jobs are being cut continuously, more and more every week. While economic experts and stock market analysts are sounding the alarm and worrying about the dividends of their rich customers, the IG Metall union remains silent and is enforcing the attacks on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285,8],"tags":[482,483,485,486,484,270],"class_list":{"0":"post-1591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-automotive","8":"tag-auto","9":"tag-big-three","10":"tag-daimler","11":"tag-ford","12":"tag-stellantis","13":"tag-volkswagen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}