Siemens Gamesa dismisses the manager who had become a trade unionist

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Until last Monday he was director of the human resources area of ​​Siemens Gamesa and ‘senior manager’ of the company –one of the members of the senior management of the Basque wind energy company– and had announced his desire to stand in the union elections representing of the ELA union. ELA had even named him a delegate in the company so that there were no doubts about the ties that united them. Since this Tuesday, however, Alberto Marauri is a former manager and former employee of the company because Siemens Gamesa has decided to fire him. Expressed in more technical terms, he has included him in the ERE that the multinational has launched to adjust its staff to which 104 volunteers have already joined.

Marauri, who had expressed his desire to stay to carry out a union task from the other side of the trench is, in practice, the first ‘involuntary’ dismissal that has been included in the ERE. Yesterday, ELA sent an urgent statement to its affiliates in the company to let them know the news, described the dismissal as “traumatic” and announced that it is studying to take legal action.

a unique case

It was a bombing within Siemens Gamesa at the end of February, as EL CORREO revealed. A senior manager, who had also so far negotiated the agreements in the company on behalf of the company – his signature is stamped on the last one – decided to take a radical leap. Thus, in a statement sent to the workforce, he acknowledged that he had considered the possibility of joining the company’s proposed redundancies as a volunteer to adjust the workforce, but also that he had decided to stay, accept ELA’s proposal to act as a union delegate and present his candidacy, within the board of this union, in the next elections. The certain thing is that the table of the union elections has been constituted this Tuesday – the voting will celebrate the next 18 of April – and the name of him still appeared in the census of electors and eligible. Just a few hours before that constitution of the table, the company informed him that he had just been included in the ERE and that his immediate departure was already mandatory.

“They want us to pay, one way or another, for the bad decisions that have been made far from here for years,” said the human resources manager in the statement sent to the staff at the end of February, in which he launched directly critical darts around the drift of the company. Siemens Gamesa is plunged into a deep crisis, with millions in losses and its decision center has moved to Madrid for some time now, in a move that the CEO, Jocken Eikholt, justified by “the best air connections.”

Volunteers and outplaced

The ERE proposed by the company initially included the departure of 352 people and an agreement reached with the unions established that it would be done, preferably, through early retirement and voluntary redundancies. The number has been reduced over time because the company has made 97 relocations within the firm, while there have been 104 volunteer requests that have been accepted. For the rest, 150 positions, according to company sources, they are trying to find a solution with positions that were not initially affected by the adjustment but with which there may be an exchange of people.

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