Overview

• Reductions focus on Mobility sites including Stuttgart-Feuerbach (about 3,500 by 2030), Schwieberdingen (about 1,750), Bühl/Bühlertal (about 1,550), Homburg (about 1,250) and Waiblingen, where connector production is slated to end by 2028 (about 560 roles).
• Bosch says measures will be negotiated locally with works councils and pursued through socially acceptable solutions, with executives stressing that time pressure is high.
• The company links the cuts to weak vehicle demand and costly technology shifts, and plans additional levers such as productivity gains using AI and reductions in material and other operating costs.
• IG Metall and the Mobility works council reject the scale of the plan; IG Metall’s Christiane Benner denounced the move and works council chair Frank Sell warned of an “extremely hot” autumn of protests.
• The new plan follows previously communicated German reductions of about 9,000 roles, taking reported planned cuts across earlier and new rounds to roughly 22,000.