Workers at all four German plants walked out and joined picketers positioned outside the gates at factories in Bochum, Eisenach, Kaiserslautern and Ruesselsheim to underscore their concern that thousands of jobs may be lost. Opel employees were dismayed by an announcement by their parent company, General Motors, that a plan to sell the struggling carmaker to Canadian auto parts supplier Magna and the Russian lender, Sberbank, had been reversed at the last minute. The next few weeks could turn nasty for the two sides after the Opel works council said that, under the circumstances, it would reject wage cuts as a way to salvage the company. GM responded, saying in that case, it would take Opel into bankruptcy.
Workers at all four German plants walked out and joined picketers positioned outside the gates at factories in Bochum, Eisenach, Kaiserslautern and Ruesselsheim to underscore their concern that thousands of jobs may be lost.
Opel employees were dismayed by an announcement by their parent company, General Motors, that a plan to sell the struggling carmaker to Canadian auto parts supplier Magna and the Russian lender, Sberbank, had been reversed at the last minute.
The next few weeks could turn nasty for the two sides after the Opel works council said that, under the circumstances, it would reject wage cuts as a way to salvage the company. GM responded, saying in that case, it would take Opel into bankruptcy.
