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Opel Confirms Closing of Bochum Factory in 2016
General Motors Co.'s Opel unit reiterates that it intends to shutter its assembly plant in Bochum, Germany, sometime in 2016 after the Zafira MPV built there goes out of production.
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General Motors Co.'s Opel unit reiterates that it intends to shutter its assembly plant in Bochum, Germany, sometime in 2016 after the Zafira MPV built there goes out of production.
Opel said in June that operations in Bochum would cease after 2016. The move is part of a sweeping restructuring that includes shedding excess factory capacity and stemming years of losses.
The German government and the IG Metall union have pressured the company to reconsider. But Opel says its earlier decision did not find any new alternatives.
The company plans to negotiate closing terms with its works council in Bochum in an effort to avoid firing any of the facility's 3,300 employees. That could include preserving some jobs at its Bochum warehouse and possibly boosting its parts making in the region. But Opel stated last month it would shed 300 jobs when it ends transmission production at the Bochum plant, as planned.
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