"No longer a bystander"

Job cuts again: City boss calls for industry summit

The next job cuts at Steyr Automotive put Mayor Markus Vogl in a state of alarm.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Harald Dostal, Markus Wenzel,)

Around 200 employees have been registered for redundancy with the labor market service's early warning system! The bad news from the Steyr Automotive plant is causing ever darker clouds to gather over the vehicle supplier. Mayor Markus Vogl is highly alarmed and is now calling for an industry summit.

From SKF to the BMW plant: the town of Steyr can rely on stable leading companies. Steyr Automotive, on the other hand, is apparently far from smooth sailing: since the takeover by Siegfried Wolf in fall 2021, the number of employees at the vehicle supplier has shrunk dramatically.

Just under three years ago, Steyr Automotive employed around 2,200 people, but this figure has now fallen to around 1,200. With the announced reduction of a further 200 employees, the plant is scratching at the 1,000 mark and could even fall below it.

"We need a perspective before the hat burns."

Markus Vogl, Bürgermeister der Stadt Steyr

Mayor Markus Vogl is alarmed: "The fact that so many people in our city have lost their jobs and thus the basis of their livelihood in such a short space of time is dramatic."

"There is great uncertainty"
Vogl, who once worked at the former MAN plant himself, also says: "The uncertainty of the remaining employees is correspondingly great. We can no longer stand by and watch."

Vogl calls for an industry summit: "Steyr is one of the most important industrial locations in Austria and it should stay that way." The mayor wants to bring everyone together: The federal government, the state, the employment service, the social partners.

"We need all players at the same table"
"We need all players at the same table to develop future prospects for the location and create framework conditions that make research, development and production in Steyr attractive and create and secure jobs in the region."