NXP is in heavy weather and therefore wants to in 2013 two factories in Nijmegen, close. Here, some 300 jobs will be lost. Trade union FNV wondering if there is really no more work, and questioned the usefulness and necessity of the measures.
Trade union FNV says the necessity of the measures at the chip maker still not understand. “FNV Bondgenoten put large question marks on the usefulness and necessity,” said bond in a statement Wednesday. “That something was bound to come was known, but this is hard to improve”, says Ron van Baden, director of FNV Bondgenoten. “I will as soon as possible in conversation with NXP about the usefulness and necessity and the retention of jobs in the Nijmegen region.”
Also trade union CNV does not, without more, to accept the resignation. “After previous radical shifts makes NXP is now known to 300 people to lose to, why?”, ask Arthur Bone of CNV vakmensen. “Is that to make more profit and the shareholders are happy to keep? If this reorganization of NXP comes from profit maximization, then the involved 300 employees in their work to preserve it. That argument bestempel I in advance as no-go-area.”
The rumbles already at NXP. In recent years, the company has 4500 jobs are deleted, of which one third in the Netherlands. In 2008, the chipmaker a major reorganisation, involving, inter alia, the ICN5 factory in Nijmegen, its doors had to close and 1050 jobs disappeared.
In 2009, it took this plan to a further 350 workers from their jobs, and in 2010 were still some redundancies. At the NXP headquarters in Eindhoven were at that time a further 250 jobs were lost in the research & development department and the management.
The manufacturer is struggling with outdated technology and high European costs. NXP counts in Netherlands currently has some 3,500 employees, of which there are about 2000 in Nijmegen working. Was previously a factory in Nijmegen, partly closed. The company is doing there now, so still a scoop on top by about two years, two factories in Nijmegen to close, in which 300 arbeidplaatsen lost.