Most enthusiasts know Schaeffler by its brand names. INA makes the cam phaser rattling in a tired engine. FAG makes the wheel bearing humming at 60 mph. The company behind those boxes just told employees it has too many factories and…
Nov 4, 2026 14:00 167 German industrial giant Schaeffler, which has established itself as one of the world’s largest manufacturers of automotive components and industrial equipment, has announced the launch of a new restrictive cost-optimisation programme. The restructuring strategy envisages cutting 3,460 jobs across Europe,…
Schaeffler plans to cut a further 3,460 jobs in Europe, including around 2,660 in Germany, and close four sites there. WELT reported this on November 3. The company’s new plans show just how much pressure the European automotive supply industry continues to face.
Schaeffler plans to cut a further 3,460 jobs across Europe, including approximately 2,660 in Germany, and close four German sites, according to WELT’s report published on 3 November. The announcement highlights the continuing pressure on Europe’s automotive supply industry. In its accompanying announcement,…
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Its home market, Germany, will account for approximately 2,660 of the planned reductions. Four of the five site closures are planned in the country, including the Dortmund plant, which employs 430 people, and the Morbach site, with 160 employees. The company also intends…
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FRANKFURT: German auto parts supplier Schaeffler said Tuesday that it planned to cut almost 3,500 jobs and close five sites in Europe as the crisis gripping the car industry deepens. Like other German carmakers and suppliers, the group has struggled with…
The auto industry has been one of the great employers of the industrial age, and its labor history is a big part of modern economic history. The sit-down strikes of the 1930s helped establish the United Auto Workers, and the wages and benefits it won helped build the American middle class. In Germany, IG Metall plays a similarly powerful role, with workers represented on company boards. Few industries still have such a direct link between labor relations and national politics.
Recent years have brought new tensions. The UAW's 2023 strike against all three Detroit automakers at once won major gains and signaled a more combative union. Factory closures and layoffs in Europe, especially in Germany, have hit communities that relied on carmaking for generations, while the shift to electric vehicles has raised hard questions about how many workers will be needed to build cars with far fewer moving parts. Organizing drives at foreign-owned plants in the American South have added another front.
This page follows labor news across the industry: contract talks and strikes, union campaigns, layoffs and job cuts, plant openings and closures, and hiring for new battery and electric vehicle factories. It also covers how automation, tariffs and changing demand affect workers. For anyone trying to understand where cars will be built and by whom, the story of the people on the line matters as much as the products they make. The machines get the headlines, but the workforce decides how quickly they arrive.
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