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"Around 2,000 have already agreed to leave, and we will likely
see a further 2,000 people accept packages," Wolfgang Schaefer-Klug
said at a press conference.
"I'm not worried about meeting the cost targets, the scale of
the uptake of buyout offers means it is now a question of
whether we have enough staff to manage the current workload,"
Schaefer-Klug added.
"What is missing is a clear vision for the way forward at Opel
in terms of utilized production capacity and job guarantees
beyond 2020," he said.
Opel, which PSA bought from General Motors for $2.6 billion, has
made losses for almost 20 years, and CEO Carlos Tavares has been
frustrated in his bid to cut high production costs.
PSA has given Opel until 2020 to return to profit as part of a
recovery plan aimed at shifting the brand's model lineup onto
PSA's architecture, with the French parent pursuing 1.7 billion
euros ($2.1 billion) in savings from its purchase.
Germany's IG Metall union objects to PSA's negotiation tactics.
Before agreeing to allocate a new product at Opel's Eisenach
factory, which employs 1,800 staff, PSA has demanded wage
concessions from all 19,000 Opel staff employed in Germany.
PSA had offered to allocate a new sports utility vehicle to the
Eisenach factory, but labor leaders question whether the vehicle
will be popular enough to secure the plant's future, and have
sought additional guarantees.
"They are attempting to blackmail us," IG Metall executive
Berthold Huber, who is on Opel's negotiating committee, said on
Friday.
(Reporting by Riham Alkousaa and Edward Taylor; Editing by Arno
Schuetze and Mark Potter)
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