Updated 03/26/2032
There are problems at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen. The supply chains are worrying. components should be missing. There is talk of a “critical supply situation for various components”. So there is less work for the employees. Strictly speaking, there is no more work at all on one day. On March 31, 2023, early and late shifts will be canceled in two production halls. Instead to send the Mercedes employees on short-time work, according to information from the Radio Bremen magazine “buten un binnen”, the plant management of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen asked around 3,000 employees in an internal communication to work overtime on March 31, 2023 or to take vacation and to stay at home.
Article from March 23, 2023: Thousands of Mercedes cars should be produced less
The production engine sputters at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen. After the plant had to apply for short-time work for 700 employees due to delivery problems at the beginning of March 2023, according to information from the Radio Bremen magazine “buten un binnen”, entire shifts are now being canceled and many temporary workers laid off. Thousands of Mercedes cars are to be produced less in Bremen. Why? Mercedes-Benz speaks tight-lipped of “shift adjustments” that are temporarily necessary due to supply chain problems. The management of the plant wants to inform the employees at a works meeting scheduled for March 30th about what to expect.
As “buten un binnen” claims to have learned from circles of the workforce, around 6,500 fewer Mercedes cars than originally planned will be produced at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen in the second quarter of 2023. In order to throttle production, night shifts, which are lucrative for employees, are primarily being eliminated in some production areas. Several hundred employees at the Bremen Mercedes-Benz plant are said to be affected by this measure, which means significant salary losses. The permanent workforce does not have to worry about their jobs, Mercedes-Benz informed the Radio Bremen magazine in writing. Because the Bremen plant is adjusting its shift planning, “not all temporary workers could continue to be employed in the plant,” is the quote from the reply from Mercedes-Benz. There are currently around 2,000 temporary workers at the Mercedes plant in Bremen.
The Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen
The Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen with its 12,500 employees is the largest private employer in the region and the lead plant in the worldwide Mercedes production network for the Mercedes-Benz C-Class and the Mercedes-Benz GLC. Ten models (C-Class Sedan, T-Model, Coupé and Cabriolet (C-Class Coupé and Cabriolet can currently no longer be ordered in the online configurator), E-Class Cabriolet and Coupé, GLC SUV, GLC Coupé, EQC, EQE ) produced.
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