{"id":344041,"date":"2018-01-16T10:57:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T09:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/vote-no-on-union-backed-steel-contract-defend-all-jobs\/"},"modified":"2018-01-16T10:57:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T09:57:14","slug":"vote-no-on-union-backed-steel-contract-defend-all-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/vote-no-on-union-backed-steel-contract-defend-all-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote \u201cNo\u201d on union-backed steel contract! Defend all jobs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h4>The merger of Germany\u2019s Thyssen with Tata Steel<\/h4>\n<h2>Vote \u201cNo\u201d on union-backed steel contract! Defend all jobs!<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei<br \/>\n    <br \/>16 January 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The IG Metall trade union is currently holding votes at all German ThyssenKrupp locations on a contract it negotiated with ThyssenKrupp shortly before Christmas. The contract will implement the merger of Germany\u2019s largest steel producer with India\u2019s Tata Steel. The goal of the merger is the implementation of cost-cutting rationalisation measures and mass layoffs in Germany and Britain.<\/p>\n<p>The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP) calls on the approximately 27,000 steelworkers at eight German locations to oppose the contract and vote it down. A \u201cNo\u201d vote must be made the prelude to the formation of action committees in all steel plants and the organisation of joint methods of struggle with British steelworkers for a principled defence of all jobs.<\/p>\n<p>IG Metall initially intended to keep the contract secret. The union planned to hold the vote without releasing any details on it. Only following protests from the workforce did the union provide the workers with access to the agreement.<\/p>\n<p> Leading trade union officials, like deputy chair of ThyssenKrupp\u2019s supervisory board and IG Metall secretary Markus Grolms, spoke out, telling the <em>Rheinische Post<\/em> that job \u201csecurity now prevails for a long time.\u201d The central works council chair at Thyssen Krupp, G\u00fcnther Back, grandiosely declared that jobs and locations would be guaranteed for nine years, and effectively for ten years due to redundancy protection.<\/p>\n<p>A closer inspection of the contract makes clear that this is not the case. IG Metall has explicitly agreed to \u201cpersonnel adjustments\u201d\u2014i.e., layoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Paragraph 8 of the agreement states, \u201cThe parties&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/01\/16\/thys-j16.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The merger of Germany\u2019s Thyssen with Tata Steel Vote \u201cNo\u201d on union-backed steel contract! Defend all jobs! By Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei 16 January 2018 The IG Metall trade union is currently holding votes at all German ThyssenKrupp locations on a contract it negotiated with ThyssenKrupp shortly before Christmas. The contract will implement the merger of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-344041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}