The cuts represent about 10% of Bosch’s total workforce in the country, and 3% of its staff worldwide. Workers’ representatives vowed to resist the cuts, labelling them ‘unprecedented.’
German industrial giant Bosch said Thursday, September 25, it would cut 13,000 jobs, mostly in its auto unit, in the latest blow for the country’s ailing car sector.
The auto industry in Europe’s biggest economy has been hammered by fierce competition in key market China, weak demand and a slower than expected shift to electric vehicles.
The cuts, all of which will take place in Germany, represent about 10% of Bosch’s total workforce in the country, and 3% of its staff worldwide.
Bosch − the world’s biggest auto supplier, making everything from braking and steering systems to sensors − said the layoffs were needed to help make annual savings of €2.5 billion in the group’s car unit.
Those cars are 20k because the majority of chinese blue collar workers are treated like 19th century coal miners, with few labor laws or regulations to speak of.
We get cheap shit because of their suffering.
so that’s acceptable with, (checks notes), every other Chinese made product sold in NA and Europe but not EVs… no sir, we car aboot those EV workers a lot
Same is true of almost everything you own, large groups of people stuck in poverty isn’t an accident, it’s on purpose and it’s everywhere in this world sadly
You’re peddling talking points that exist to ensure you can’t a better deal due to lack of competition and artificially inflated prices.
Have you ever had a banana? Guess why they’re so cheap. We still get access to them and useful idiots like you don’t complain because the banana market doesn’t threaten the wealth of people richer than you can comprehend.
This is the problem, right here folks. Think tanks have been working overtime to make sure people like /u/whatamlemmy can feel justified in being cut off from more competitive markets.
Don’t people complain about the inhumane conditions and treatment of the laborers by banana companies all the time? lol
No, they don’t.
They also don’t block importing them to the US.
The working conditions for the average banana farmer is also significantly worse than the average Chinese car manufacturers.
>No, they don’t
It’s a topic that I’ve seen pop up countless number of times
I’m not going to sit here and debate with you what “all the time” is supposed to mean.
Conveniently ignored this part because you don’t have a rebuttal.
Also this one.
I’m going to ignore you now because you proved to me that you’re an average idiot and not worth taking seriously. It’s a shame people like you get to have more impact on the world, but that’s why the world is the way it is.
Keep getting ripped off, and keep defending the people doing it. I don’t expect more from you.
I focused on the specific part where I thought you were wrong. People do talk about the suffering if the banana plantation workers and it’s been talked for a long time. As far as products go, that’s one where the shit conditions are actually brought up often.
Yeah and let’s not even talk about all the clothes people buy that end up in landfills. Created by workers in horrible working conditions.