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.