![]() ![]() It enabled the union the gain stronger footing in the company and reach about 50% membership in the workforce to start collective bargaining with the company.Īs we reported last week, we learned that CEO Elon Musk held a Q&A with the Tesla Grohmann employees earlier this month to hear their concerns and sent them a letter last week with an updated offer – we obtained the letter and included it in full below. The transition sparked some concerns among some of the ~700 employees, which was accentuated when Tesla dropped all of Grohmann’s existing clients in order to have all hands on deck for the Model 3 production lines.Īround the same time, founder Klaus Grohmann retired, which Reuters is now presenting as him being “ousted” because he disagreed with the move, while Tesla says that the acquisition was part of his retirement plan. Grohmann was also specialized in the industrial production of fuel cells, DBAG said, and was active in the electronic and semiconductor industries as well as the biotechnology and medical technology sectors.While Tesla’s acquisition of Grohmann Engineering to create Tesla Advanced Automation Group gave an opportunity for German union IG Metall to make a push to unionize the workforce, the effort seems to be slowing down.Īfter CEO Elon Musk got personally involved following threats of a strike last week, sources at Grohmann told Electrek that the union is losing ground and some workers are even canceling their membership. Tesla agreed on Sunday to buy a 74.9 percent stake from company founder and majority owner Klaus Grohmann, and a further 25.1 percent stake belonging to private equity firm Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG), DBAG said in a statement on Tuesday.ĭBAG said it expected to earn in the mid single-digit million euro range by selling its stake in Grohmann and that Grohmann had revenues of 123 million euros ($136 million) in 2015.ĭBAG said Grohmann had developed production lines for battery cells and batteries for “numerous” German and international automobile manufacturers. Grohmann currently has around 700 employees. The deal, whose financial terms were not disclosed, is expected to add over 1,000 engineering and skilled technician jobs in Germany over the next two years Tesla said in its blog. ( bit.ly/2eIkeNm)įollowing the acquisition, which still needs to be approved by the cartel authorities in Germany, several elements of Tesla’s automated manufacturing systems will be designed and produced in Pruem, close to Germany’s border with the Netherlands and Luxembourg. "To date, we have increased the production rate at our Fremont Factory by 400 percent in four years, and we expect this acquisition to accelerate that growth rate," Tesla said in a blogpost. Its main production facility is in Fremont, California. Tesla is seeking to raise its global manufacturing capacity to 500,000 vehicles in 2018 from an expected production rate of about 80,000 this year. Unlisted Grohmann Engineering, based in Pruem, Germany, helped Tesla rivals Daimler DAIGn.DE and BMW BMWG.DE build production facilities for electric car batteries. Founder and CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk speaks during a media tour of the Tesla Gigafactory, which will produce batteries for the electric carmaker, in Sparks, Nevada, U.S.
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