Ford needs to chop 2,900 jobs in Germany | EUROtoday

The US automotive producer Ford needs to chop 2,900 jobs in Germany by the top of 2027 and thus scale back prices. The firm additionally introduced that a lot of the jobs within the Cologne plant will likely be eradicated. Overall, Ford is aiming to chop 4,000 jobs in Europe, 800 of them in Great Britain and 300 in different EU international locations.

The European headquarters and the manufacturing of two electrical automotive fashions are situated in Cologne. According to the works council, Ford presently has round 11,500 jobs within the cathedral metropolis – that might imply that round one in 4 Ford jobs there could possibly be eradicated.

The firm stated Ford had made excessive losses within the passenger automotive section lately. In this section, the prices of switching to electrical automobiles are excessive. The firm additionally referred to Stromer opponents and strict CO₂ emissions targets. From Ford’s perspective, such necessities are an impediment to the separate enterprise with combustion engines.

Ford just isn’t alone with its issues. All German automotive producers are presently below nice stress. After the state subsidy for electrical automobiles was abolished, demand has collapsed, and the sluggish economic system and job fears are additionally resulting in shopper reluctance to purchase.

Ford supervisor Marcus Wassenberg stated that they wished to proceed to function a powerful enterprise in Europe for future generations. “We must therefore implement difficult but decisive measures to ensure Ford’s competitiveness in Europe.”

Management bolstered its attraction to federal policymakers to enhance market situations. In Germany and Europe there’s a lack of “a consistent and clear political agenda to promote electromobility,” complains Ford executives.

Ford has invested nearly two billion euros in its Cologne location in 2023 and 2024 so as to have the ability to produce electrical automobiles. Production of the Fiesta small automotive combustion engine mannequin was discontinued. Two electrical automotive fashions from Ford at the moment are rolling off the meeting line in Cologne – they’re the primary sequence manufacturing automobiles from Europe.

But the excessive expectations haven’t but been met to any extent. Management needed to reposition itself when German boss Martin Sander unexpectedly moved to VW this summer season. Other senior managers additionally turned their backs on Ford.

In order to resolve the issues, Ford is now persevering with to shrink. In 2018, the automotive producer nonetheless had nearly 20,000 workers within the cathedral metropolis, however by the top of 2027 there’ll probably be lower than half of that quantity.

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