Opel Takes Steps To Close Bochum
GM’s Opel will cease building cars at its German Opel plant. After 2016, no complete cars will roll off the lines at the 50 year old plant. Opel will keep a logistics hub in Bochum. The plant will continue making yet undefined components, Opel’s interim boss Thomas Sedran told German media today.
The decision will cost around 3,000 jobs.
Works council chief Rainer Einenkel does not accept the decision: “We will continue making cars in Bochum after 2016, he told DPA.
According to Reuters, the decision means that Opel “came a major step nearer closing its Bochum plant.”
Bertel Schmitt comes back to journalism after taking a 35 year break in advertising and marketing. He ran and owned advertising agencies in Duesseldorf, Germany, and New York City. Volkswagen A.G. was Bertel's most important corporate account. Schmitt's advertising and marketing career touched many corners of the industry with a special focus on automotive products and services. Since 2004, he lives in Japan and China with his wife <a href="http://www.tomokoandbertel.com"> Tomoko </a>. Bertel Schmitt is a founding board member of the <a href="http://www.offshoresuperseries.com"> Offshore Super Series </a>, an American offshore powerboat racing organization. He is co-owner of the racing team Typhoon.
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Just wondering what the Union in Germany thinks of this?
GM´s had the potential to sell a "Made in Germany" product and they botched it up. It appears this decade will be worse than the last two.
Buick City built the best selling, highest quality full size car in America and Jack Smith closed it. capital has no loyalty to labor, none.