Overview
- CEO Stefan Blaschak said the company accepts NGG’s 30 August proposal for voluntary arbitration but called the union’s 5 September end date unrealistic.
- Management noted formal conciliation typically takes two to three months and requires agreement on a conciliator and a start date, which it says were missing.
- NGG said arbitration talks must begin immediately and confirmed it has proposed a specific conciliator for the process.
- The union warned it will resume industrial action from 8 September and initiate a strike ballot if no breakthrough occurs this week.
- Employees have recently protested at Oettingen and other plants as Oettinger pursues restructuring that includes closing the Braunschweig site next year due to falling sales.