Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Robert Bosch, a German company specialising in the manufacture of car parts, has announced that it will cut 240 jobs at its plant in Castellet i la Gornal in Barcelona (Spain). As part of the restructuring the firm also intends to cut its costs by 26%.
According to the source, the company plans to gradually cut jobs from 400 to around 160-180 by 2018. The workers’ council, made up by members of the unions UGT and CCOO has rejected the measure. The workers council has called for 6 days of partial strikes to be held between 15 May and 29 May.
The ERM previously reported on restructuring at Robert Bosch in Spain in 2005.
Eurofound (2014), Robert Bosch, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 77020, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/77020.
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