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MAN to Cut 2,300 German Jobs Over a Decade as Future Truck Production Moves to Poland

The company says cost pressures and Asian competition are forcing a shift to free up funds for electrification and a unified truck platform.

Overview

  • Reductions will be phased over ten years without layoffs, primarily through retirements and not replacing positions.
  • Site impacts outlined by MAN include about 1,300 roles in Munich, 600 in Salzgitter, and 400 in Nuremberg.
  • Traton will expand Krakow as a core hub for next‑generation truck platform components, which unions warn could erode German manufacturing over time.
  • MAN pledges roughly €1 billion in investments across German plants and offers site and job assurances running to 2035.
  • IG Metall and the works council dispute the scale of losses, prepare escalation, and question whether Polish subsidies influenced the location decision.