SPD experts and wind power workers are demanding better conditions for jobs

At a meeting in the Bundestag on Friday, employees of the leading trio in matters of wind farm expansion on land, Vestas, Enercon and Nordex, as well as the world’s largest offshore wind farm operator group Ørsted and energy politicians from the SPD parliamentary group discussed better working conditions in the wind energy industry. These are the prerequisite for recruiting urgently needed specialists, said the SPD parliamentary group spokesman for wind energy issues, Bent Bergt, afterwards. “In order to be attractive for skilled workers and thus internationally competitive, the corporations must significantly improve pay and working conditions, especially for the colleagues on the ‘mills’. We as the SPD will continue to put pressure on here,” said the parliamentary group rapporteur for wind energy.

Bergt, who is also deputy energy policy spokesman for his parliamentary group, stressed that he called for “offering good collectively agreed jobs”. This safe production sites of the wind energy companies in this country. It is important to create the conditions for full order books. As an instrument for the goal of “linking climate protection with value creation and well-paid, collectively bargained jobs in Germany and Europe”, Bergt named the newly introduced tender criteria, which also include a high training quota. He contacted the Chancellor for further solutions, said Bergt.

The shortage of skilled workers in the industry is considered blatant. “Hundreds of thousands of workers will be missing in the next few years” – should not be counteracted, said Bergt.

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