DGB in Saarland merges with SPD party politics

"The economy and industry in Germany are in a major crisis, the effects of which we are feeling very clearly here in Saarland. In this situation, it is not good that the DGB in Saarland is apparently increasingly merging with SPD party politics. This is the only way to explain the uncritical and docile statements of DGB chairman Ahr regarding the difficult situation at ZF.

Ahr only mentions the industrial electricity price, which the SPD promised three years ago during the federal election campaign and has yet to deliver, in passing. Not a word about the ideologically blinded ban on combustion engines, which the SPD has consistently supported in Saarland and has significantly pushed through in the European Parliament. This is a key reason for the tense situation at many companies in the automotive and supplier industries, especially at ZF.

We urgently need clear and reliable framework conditions to stabilize the business and industrial location again, to stop relocations, and to enable new investments in the German economy. Whether such an SPD course by the DGB actually helps is more than questionable. For SPD state parliament member Ahr, the SPD is obviously more important than the concerns of employees in Saarland."