Workers prepare a scaffolding at the construction site of Tesla's electric car factory in Gruenheide, near Berlin, Germany, March 4, 2022. REUTERS/Annegret Hilseis having to raise wages to attract employees to its new manufacturing plant outside Berlin, a top German union said, warning of a looming pay dispute among the workforce there.
Recruitment at the company's so-called Gigafactory in Gruenheide, which began production in March 2022, is behind schedule, Birgit Dietze, a regional representative for IG Metall's branch for Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony, said in a statement. "Tesla wants to have around 12,000 employees on board by the end of the year. In order to achieve this goal, the management will soon have to take the pay up a notch," Dietze said.Many interested in switching to Tesla "earn significantly more in their current jobs at other automakers," she added.
In order to attract talent, Tesla has already begun offering new hires more pay, which threatens to "damage industrial peace", according to Dietze, who said that the union had already received complaints about this. The resulting pay gap, which is said to amount to almost 20% among skilled workers, will only grow with upcoming collective bargaining talks, IG Metall warned.Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com
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German unions are pretty solid. You can't abuse/push/threaten around workers and get away with it as easily as in the US. Clearly they won't be able to apply the same strategies in Texas and in Germany.
They aren’t the statement literally comes from a union which works for a competitor , Tesla has hired thousands of employees
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