The industrial group is currently being restructured,
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Berlin, Dusseldorf The head of the works council of the industrial group Thyssen-Krupp, Dirk Sievers, is giving up his post after five years in office. On July 1, he will take on new tasks in the company, Sievers explained in a letter to employees published on Tuesday. According to corporate circles, he will become labor director of the Rasselstein subsidiary.
As a manufacturer of tinplate, the division is one of the most profitable business units in the Ruhr group. Sievers has been the top works council at Thyssen-Krupp since 2018. The job gave him a lot of pleasure, but the past few years have been shaped primarily by crises and difficult decisions that were not easy for him, Sievers wrote. “So, as Chairman of the Group Works Council and member of the Supervisory Board […] also make serious decisions such as company sales, downsizing and even plant closures.”
The previous chairman of the Thyssen-Krupp works council is moving to management.
The company declined to comment on the process.
It is not unusual for members of the works council and the IG Metall trade union to move into the company’s management. In previous years, Oliver Burkhard, Chief Human Resources Officer, and Markus Grolms, who is responsible for the steel division’s personnel, moved to the Group’s Executive Board.
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