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Bosch, Continental and ZF: job cuts and factory closures in the supplier industry

Automotive suppliers including Continental, Bosch, ZF, Mahle and Brose face massive job cuts and plant closures. The industry’s structural transformation threatens hundreds of thousands of jobs, while measures used in previous crises may no longer suffice.

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27 Oct 2026
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Bosch, Continental and ZF: job cuts and factory closures in the supplier industry

Automotive suppliers including Continental, Bosch, ZF, Mahle and Brose face massive job cuts and plant closures. The industry’s structural transformation threatens hundreds of thousands of jobs, while measures used in previous crises may no longer suffice.

Author: Mag Source: labournet.de
Mag Germany Auto industry IG Metall
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26 Oct 2026
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GEW and the Nazi past: a book and the debate over the union’s history

Saskia Müller and Benjamin Ortmeyer’s book examines the National Socialist Teachers’ League’s role in the Nazi system. Its publication prompted an open letter and a broad debate about the GEW’s Nazi legacy, including calls to explain publicly the renaming of the Max Traeger Foundation.

Author: Mag Source: labournet.de
Mag Germany Education Labor history
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22 Oct 2026
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Resistance to the consequences of the profit crisis for auto workers is growing – LabourNet Germany

Personnel costs are not the cause of the problems facing VW, Daimler, BMW or their suppliers, and there is no reason to cut workers’ wages. IG Metall has every reason to defend workers’ incomes and social rights. In the first three quarters of 2024, VW, Mercedes and BMW earned around 20 billion eur…

Author: Mag Source: labournet.de
Mag Germany Auto industry IG Metall
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08 Oct 2026
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German trade unions once again bet on confrontation - Viento Sur

mediapart Social autumn in Germany was already known to be heated, especially in the automotive sector. But no one imagined it would be so red-hot. "It seems that bosses no longer want to assume their collaboration with trade unions. Announcements and unilateral denunciations of agreements by comp…

Author: Thomas Schnee Source: vientosur.info
Thomas Schnee Germany Auto industry IG Metall
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05 Oct 2026
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Monitoring at Amazon: The Supervisor Sees Everything—Amazon Stores Everything » LabourNet Germany

“… Amazon constantly monitors workers’ performance. Here’s how the performance monitoring program works: Amazon employees scan every item they put into storage, retrieve, or pack into a package. This scanning process is recorded down to the second and displayed to a supervisor. This allows the supe…

Author: Mag Source: labournet.de
Germany Logistics Union busting and repression
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29 Sep 2026
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German Amazon Workers Organize to Get Paid for Every Minute

Amazon workers at four delivery and sorting warehouses in Germany are organizing to make every minute count. They’re demanding that Amazon pay them for every minute of work, saying in a petition that the company is stealing their time. Working even 10 unpaid minutes a day, the workers say, adds up…

Author: Luis Feliz Leon Source: labornotes.org
Luis Feliz Leon Germany Transport and logistics Value
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20 Sep 2026
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New Nationalism: Why People Vote for Trump and “Alternative for Germany”

About 20 to 30 years ago, globalization was on the rise worldwide.  The European Union was actively expanding; the Davos forums were the main event of the year; G7 and G20 summits were held with great fanfare and accompanied by anti-globalization protests; Europe was widely accepting migrants; and …

Author: Илья Матвеев Source: ru.themoscowtimes.com
Ilya Matveev Germany Globalization and multinationals Right-wing
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14 Sep 2026
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Why Are More and More Workers in Germany Voting for the AfD? » LabourNet Germany

“… Workers are among the occupational groups that support the AfD particularly strongly. (…) For some time now, political party researchers have been debating whether the AfD’s remarkable success makes it a new workers’ party. It is largely undisputed that its platform cannot necessarily be describ…

Author: Mag Source: labournet.de
Arlie Hochschild Germany Right-wing Layoffs and unemployment
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14 Sep 2026
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Campaign Newspaper – For a (Transportation) Industry with a Future » LabourNet Germany

Where does the future of the auto industry lie? In job cuts, plant closures, or a shift to arms production? Or in a shift from producing private vehicles to public transportation? With the “Action Newspaper for a Transportation Industry with a Future,” we want to kick off the discussion on this top…

Author: Mag Source: labournet.de
Germany Auto industry Right-wing Layoffs and unemployment
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12 Sep 2026
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“Zentrum Automobil e.V.” – a neo-fascist workplace group (not only) at Daimler (not only in Stuttgart) » LabourNet Germany

“The ‘Zentrum’ slate has once again run in this year’s works council elections at Daimler in Untertürkheim. The group behind it, ‘Zentrum Automobil e.V.,’ is a neo-fascist workplace organization. According to its bylaws, its goal is to establish workplace groups in the automotive industry, starting…

Author: Mag Source: labournet.de
Germany Auto industry Right-wing Trade Unions and Ideology
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