Overview
- Roughly 60 to 70 people gathered outside Stöger Automation’s Königsdorf site, urged by IG Metall Weilheim and the local DGB, to demand the withdrawal of the ban.
- Management imposed the house ban in early August during a dispute over short-time work and shift schedules, according to local reporting.
- The elected works-council chairman has been working from a caravan since being barred from the premises.
- Union leaders, including Karl Musiol, argued the measure violates representation rights and asserted the company is likely to lose in court, a claim the employer has not publicly addressed in the reports.
- Political figures Karl Bär (Greens), Florian von Brunn (SPD) and Klaus Barthel (SPD) attended, while on-site observers and cameras monitored the protest and more than 40 employees reportedly backed a petition against the chairman.