Zetsche Defends Mercedes Job Cuts

Zetsche Defends Job Cuts

Posted by eMercedesBenz.com  on September 29, 2005 at 10:45 AM CST

At a meeting with workers in Mercedes' Sindelfingen factory today,  
Dieter Zetsche, head of the Mercedes Car Group, defended the  
company's plans to lay off 8,500 workers.  In a letter, Zetsche wrote  
that Mercedes "really did explore all possibilities in recent months,  
but that we have a long and difficult road ahead until the Mercedes  
Car Group is really competitive again."

The job cuts, which will take place over the next 12 months, will  
come via retirement packages, voluntary redundancies and not  
replacing workers who leave the company. As for who's gettng the ax,  
most of the job cuts will take place at Mercedes' German plants, with  
3,100 coming from the Sindelfingen plant, 2,700 from the Bremen plan,  
and 1,100 from the Stuttgart-Untertuerkheim plant.  The remaining job  
cuts will come from marketing and production planning departments...

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