According to previous plans, the transfer companies of the MV Werften Group are to expire at the end of June. But there are still only plans for the future of the locations. The union now wants clarity.
Wismar (dpa/mv) – In the struggle for the future of the approximately 1,500 remaining employees of the insolvent MV shipyard group, IG Metall Coast has demanded that the state government make an early decision to extend the transfer companies. “The shipyard workers in Rostock, Stralsund and Wismar are missing a clear signal from Schwerin. With the transfer companies, the transition to good work can be organized and unemployment prevented,” said the district manager of IG Metall Coast, Daniel Friedrich, of the German Press Agency. At the end of June, the previously secured financing for the transfer companies expires.
In the event of an extension, it is to be hoped that more than half of the remaining employees can be brought into secure, collectively agreed employment in the next few months. “We don’t want to be placed in any job, but in reasonable work – if possible in the maritime industry,” stressed Friedrich. At the Warnemünde shipyard alone, the possible entry of the naval arsenal involves hiring 500 employees.
“If the Wismar site is sold to ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, we hope that new jobs will be created there in the short term, for example for designers,” said the union boss. The companies on the site of the shipyard in Stralsund also need qualified specialists.
With the extension of the transfer company, the state government is doing something for the people, but also for the investors who want to get involved at the locations, stressed Friedrich. In the transfer company, they could also be qualified for jobs in other sectors, such as crafts. “This is concrete industrial policy that is linked to good work – just as the red-red state government has written on the flags.”