Overview
- Tesla’s Grünheide plant will not enter a collective bargaining agreement, Werksleiter André Thierig said.
- Thierig said Tesla granted a 4% pay rise this year versus 2% in the industry deal, bringing cumulative increases to more than 25% since production began.
- He called a shift to a 35-hour week a red line, arguing it would threaten the factory’s competitiveness.
- He cast the 2026 works council election as decisive and questioned whether U.S. decision-makers would pursue expansion if IG Metall secured a majority.
- IG Metall countered that without a Tarifvertrag Tesla pay trails other German auto plants, citing the sector pact with a €600 payment in 2024 and raises of 2.0% from April 2025 and 3.1% from April 2026.