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EADS
employees assemble a Eurofighter plane at a production line in
Manching,
southern Germany, on February 28, 2013 (AFP/File, Guenter Schiffmann)
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BERLIN —
European aerospace giant EADS, the maker of Airbus aircraft, announced plans
Monday to cut 5,800 jobs in its defence and space division over three years.
The
layoffs, part of a major restructuring in the face of falling orders, will
affect the group's workforce in Germany, France, Spain and Britain, the company
said in a statement.
The news
came after a meeting of its European works council with chief executive Tom
Enders, whose bold plan to merge the conglomerate with Britain's defence group
BAE Systems was torpedoed last year with a surprise veto by Germany.
"We
need to improve our competitiveness in defence and space ?- and we need to do
it now," Enders said, according to the statement.
"With
our traditional markets down, we urgently need to improve access to
international customers, to growth markets. For that to work, we need to cut
costs, eliminate product and resource overlaps, create synergies in our
operations and product portfolio and better focus our Research and Development
efforts."
He added:
"That's what the restructuring and integration plan for our defence and
space business is all about."
An industry
source said about 2,600 of the job cuts would be in Germany, around 1,700 in
France,700 in Britain and another 600 in Spain.
Anticipating
fierce resistance from labour representatives, the company said it would do
what it could to cushion the impact of the cuts, due to be completed by the end
of 2016.
Furloughed
employees will be offered redeployment in 1,500 jobs at the company's Airbus
and Eurocopter divisions.
About 1,300
short-term contracts will not be renewed, and with voluntary measures, the
company estimated final redundancies to come in at between 1,000 and 1,450
employees.
"The
group also intends to enter into negotiations with its works councils to seek
agreements on labour cost reductions which could help mitigate the social
impact of the restructuring plan," it added.
EADS has
previously announced that it is changing its name to Airbus to raise its public
profile.
The
overhauled defence and space division, to be called Airbus DS, will have a
streamlined legal structure to cut costs and be up and running by January 1,
the company said.
Shares in
EADS rose 0.82 percent to 50.49 euros in Paris on the news.
But a
French union, the FO Metalworkers' Federation, reacted angrily to the
announcement, protesting that EADS on the whole "is doing well financially
and its order books are in good shape".
It said the
group's focus on improving its profit margin should not come at the expense of
its staff and urged the French state as a major shareholder to fight to protect
jobs.
"FO
calls on EADS to avoid layoffs and appeals to its sense of responsibility and
solidarity so that no employee will be left behind," it said.
Enders has
stressed that the company cannot continue with business as usual while
government clients are increasingly resorting to cuts to the military to shore
up strained public finances.
He has
cited lost orders worth several billion euros (dollars) in Germany alone that
the company had thought were certain.
In
November, Germany's biggest union IG Metall held industrial action as a warning
against the company's expected restructuring plans.
IG Metall's
Ruediger Luetjen, who is head of EADS' European works council, said in a
statement the union was unhappy that forced redundancies had not been excluded
from the restructuring plan.
These
"aren't an option" when EADS is highly profitable, said Luetjen,
adding, "competitiveness isn't increased when one loses highly qualified
and motivated people".
But the
overhaul is seen by management as unavoidable after the failed plan to merge
with BAE.
That was
shelved after objections from Germany, which had worried it would trigger major
job losses.
The success
of the Airbus division came after a radical restructuring in 2007 in a plan
that originally called for 10,000 job cuts, but in the end cost 7,900 jobs
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North Korea is on the edge of change, as we told you it might be. What did this require? The death of the old energy, and I want you to watch this take place. The advisors of the young leader are going to do their best to pull him back into an old energy. This free choice of his will be far different than his father, for he sees some color. Watch for these things. They'll take longer than you want, but it is the beginning of the beginning.
You'll see a fresh unification of South America sooner than not, for what is going to take place potentially this year in Venezuela. You'll see Iran changing. We have no clock. These are the potentials. These can change with free choice. These are not prophecies. This is a reality shift, dear ones, so number eight becomes the propensity not to war again. This is what Humans are going to want. This is what governments are going to want. There is a wisdom factor that will begin to happen on the planet that is grander than what you think is possible. For when you look at government, what do you think about? You see dysfunction, and there is an axiom that says the more people that try to do something together, the worse it gets. It all settles to the lowest common denominator. I'm telling you even those things are going to become old energy concepts. Instead, you're going to watch wisdom become the top potential.
I have no clock. I cannot tell you when. I can just tell you it is in the works, and there will be the seeds of it for you to observe soon - right now, in every single of the eight categories I showed you.
There are those who will say, "Well, Kryon, you're doing a lot more predictions than you used to." I want to tell you what's going on, dear one. I am not predicting anything. I am just telling you what's already there in the potential soup of your reality. That's what Humans are doing on this planet, and for those who believe this communication, you should breathe a sigh of relief and say, "It's about time." ….”
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