Mercedes wants to get employees in Germany, for example, to work longer hours for the same pay. The automaker wants to eliminate or reduce special payments, such as Christmas and holiday bonuses, as well as annual profit-sharing bonuses. According to Handelsblatt, management aims to save €800 million annually in this way. The board itself also intends to waive parts of its remuneration.
Do it. Cowards! Trying to blackmail us! DO IT!
We can make that a win-win and bundle that with imposing a speed limit on Autobahn of 90 km/h and 30 km/h in cities, apart from cars-only roads. Oh, and a motorway toll whose earnings are used to fix the lng-distance train system that was run down due to the lobby influence of the car industry.
What’s the reasoning behind the 90 km/h?
Less accidents, less pollution, less greenhouse gases, more economical use of road capacity and better traffic flow.
How is management contributing to the leaner budget? It surely is as ambitious on realising all those saving potentials int he upper levels as down there, is it?
Imagine MB moving to a new country? No heritage, no culture, no special privileges for taxes and legislation. Such a dumb bluff that it would be justice for them to move. No country on Earth has the cultural cache for industrial quality like Germany.
Hah, never seen “bluff” written across a press release with this big red letters before!
[We want to get rid of] annual profit-sharing bonuses
Lmao, not even trying to hide behind “oh, costs have just grown so much!”, are we.
Christmas and holiday bonuses,
I understand these because I think on this kind of bonuses as just scraps thrown as worker to pacify them.
[We want to get rid of] annual profit-sharing bonuses
this one is the main one that shows their real reason.
Modern Mercs feel so cheap inside. Comparing a Cayenne to a GLE is night and day.
But they have interior mood lights! Don’t you want to roll around in a plasticky vodka bar?
It might be better to close that shitshow down. They only make shit products these days, and they have lost control over their business to the extent that they are affected by today’s ongoing Microsoft 365 outage. They are an embarrassment.
I’d disagree. I think that for European interests it’s better to bar out American and Chinese car producers. The American ones are way too big, the Chinese undercut labour rights. Better to have them here where we can regulate them better.
Of course, local, well regulated production is better than selling it out to the cheapest bidder half way across the globe. But nobody needs those fraudsters selling overpriced garbage as premium products.
