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wind power giant REpower will undermine demand for collective agreement

By Jörn Boewe, young world, 1 Feb. 2011

REpower Systems AG, based in Hamburg, number three in the German wind power industry wants to avoid using an operating agreement between management and the General a collective agreement with IG Metall. This is clear from internal documents, as the editors were leaked from the company. This would, according to our informants, the wage levels 20 to 30 percent below the nationwide agreement for the metal and electrical engineering (coastal) committed.
The 'cornerstones New remuneration system to provide the young world, were on 16 December between personnel management and the negotiation. The appropriate operating agreement should therefore be completed in February, the system will be introduced on 1 July.

REpower confirmed the essential content of the document on Friday to demand. Are "We believe that secure the competitiveness of REpower be located by operational solutions is that" we work together with our employees' representatives and agreed, said personnel manager Andreas Kaffka. This approach "allows We tailor-made concepts and the necessary level of discretion, "for example, working time arrangements.

end of November had declared the IG Metall, "a nationwide collective agreement applicable to employees through share" of the wind power industry to do. Just so were fair working conditions possible, said union Vice Detlef Wetzel. "The clean image of the industry does not fit the situation in many companies. Collective agreements are an exception, temporary work widely, and the payment of employees' is frequently opaque, Wetzel criticized on an official conference in Bremerhaven. Even when health and safety and the Mitbestimmung gebe es Nachholbedarf. In einzelnen Betrieben werde sogar versucht, die Gründung von Betriebsräten zu verhindern.

Offenbar ist es für die IG Metall problematisch, daß sich die Windkraftindustrie in den vergangenen ein, zwei Jahrzehnten eher urwüchsig entwickelt hat. Einige Unternehmer hätten sich wohl zu sehr daran gewöhnt, nach eigenem Gusto zu agieren, so Wetzel. Die IG-Metall-Bezirksleiterin Küste, Jutta Blankau, forderte, die Windkraftbranche dürfe »nicht blind gefördert« werden: »Subventionen müssen abhängig davon sein, ob in den Betrieben Tarifverträge gelten und Interessenvertretungen bestehen.«

Allerdings sei die IG Metall »nicht to riot out, "said Wetzel. It would not "individual negative examples that there is absolutely, scandalize. In this sense, said Soren Niemann-Findeisen, "the IG Metall board in Frankfurt, responsible for" strategic development projects. While it was "quite clear that the company" REpower "no agreement will. Nevertheless, the conclusion must be "not an operating agreement for the union necessarily" become an obstacle on the way to a collective agreement. Medium term, the IG Metall consider it to be steadfastly sticking to its goal.

was not until two weeks ago REpower a major contract to supply 150 wind turbines obtained with a total capacity of 300 MW for the wind farm project "Lake Alfred" in the Canadian province of Quebec. The agreement marked "the largest project of the company in general", told the company. The business was "another milestone for REpower's international business and our key North American market."