"Bosch workers protest against factory closures, job cuts", 19 November 2021

Several thousand workers at autos supplier Robert Bosch protested in Germany...against planned plant closures and job relocations which the company said are needed to adapt to changing demand in the transition to electric vehicles.

Around 3,000 workers from various plants gathered outside a Bosch plant in Buehl...where around 1,000 staff in Germany will lose their jobs by 2025 as a result of relocations, cuts, or new hires, according to the company.

Workers also gathered in the town of Arnstadt, where a plant making so-called generator regulators - a car part no longer needed in electric vehicles - is due to close at the end of the year because of a lack of customers, taking a hundred jobs with it.

Protests also took place outside Bosch's Munich plant, where 250 jobs could be relocated abroad, though no final decision has been made...

A spokesperson for Bosch...said: "Our aim is always to design measures in dialogue with social representatives with the aim of exhausting all opportunities for continued employment ... while also pointing towards opportunities for new employment outside the company."...