The management, employee representatives and IG Metall, the dominant metalworkers’ union in Germany, have agreed on a collective labour agreement for the future of the Stadler Berlin plant, the parties announced on 11 April 2025.
“I would like to thank our employees, the works council and IG Metall for the constructive discussions over the last few weeks. Together, we have managed to secure the future of the site and the jobs for the coming years,” Jure Mikolčić, the CEO of Stadler Germany said.
On 9 April, IG Metall and the management of Stadler Germany reached a result in the collective bargaining negotiations for a collective agreement for the future and following the next day, IG Metall members at Stadler approved the outcome of the negotiations.
“Together we have achieved a good negotiation result. There is now a future for Stadler and its employees in Berlin. The location guarantee until 2032 is a clear sign of Stadler’s long-term prospects in Berlin. I would like to thank all my colleagues at Stadler who have taken a clear position over the weeks and whose commitment has made a significant contribution to the success of the negotiations,” Jan Otto, First Authorised Representative of IG Metall Berlin, said.
The key points of the negotiation result are as follows:
- Location guarantee until 2032;
- Job security, which initially secures the majority of jobs until 31 March 2029;
- Gradual harmonisation of remuneration with the collective agreement from 2028/2029;
- No interference with basic pay, no wage waiver;
- Temporary increase in weekly working hours to 40 hours without wage equalisation.
Despite a good order situation and high-capacity utilisation, the Stadler plant in Berlin had run into economic difficulties, caused among other things by the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine and the resulting significant rise in energy and raw material prices.
As a result, Stadler announced at the end of February that it would have to make operating processes more efficient and also ask its employees to make a contribution in order to make the sites strong for the tough international competition.
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