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PRESS STATEMENT “The employee representatives on the supervisory board did not approve the closures”

Christiane Benner, Second Chair of IG Metall and Deputy Chair of Continental’s Supervisory Board, after the Supervisory Board meeting at Conti

Christiane Benner - Zweite Vorsitzende der IG Metall
Foto: Alexander Paul Englert

21 November 2019 21 November 2019

Christiane Benner: “The various actions at the German sites and the nearly 900 employees who demonstrated in front of Conti’s corporate headquarters sent a clear message today. The employee representatives on the Supervisory Board did not approve the closures. After all, approval would have meant accepting the closure of the affected sites. In our view, the plans presented by the employer do not address the challenges of the transformation. We will now press for the Supervisory Board to review the results of the external assessment we commissioned of the measures proposed by the Executive Board for the affected sites. These results will be available by the end of January.”

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