* Munich - MAN broadens Labor Union talks to trim costs amid trucks slump
-- MAN SE has broadened its union negotiations to include non-production jobs as it seeks to slim operations amid what the company has warned will be the second straight year of declining orders for trucks... MAN started union talks last year over three key plants in Germany and Austria and has reduced hours for nearly 6,000 factory workers. Negotiations now include white-collar workers, particularly at the Munich headquarters, said Juergen Dorn, who leads the MAN workers council and sits on the supervisory board for the truckmaker and its parent Volkswagen AG... The cost cuts are intended to offset slowing deliveries due to a recession in Brazil and slowing growth in China and other markets... The three production sites employ a total of about 7,900 workers, while about 5,300 people work in office jobs such as research and development and finance at the Munich head office, the company said ... Volkswagen, which took full control of Swedish truck brand Scania last year and MAN in 2013, has yet to reap significant cost savings from sharing development efforts. The Wolfsburg, Germany-based carmaker, the world’s second biggest, said last week it wants to create the world’s most profitable truckmaker, a global unit to rival Daimler AG’s truck division and Volvo AB...
(Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg - MAN SE Truck Production. An employee works on a cab unit for a MAN TGS truck as the vehicle passes along the production line at the MAN SE factory in Munich. MAN has key production sites in Germany, Austria, Poland, Brazil and Mexico)
Munich,Germany - Bloomberg, by Elisabeth Behrmann and Chris Reiter, Naomi Kresge, Robert Valpuesta - March 18, 2015 Labels: truckmakers news Germany
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