Weinig, agreement on collective bargaining contract to support Transformation 2027

Weinig, the Works Council, IG Metall and the employers’ association Südwestmetall have reached an agreement on a new future-oriented collective bargaining contract, designed to accompany the Transformation 2027 programme (which we discussed in this article, editor’s note) and support the strengthening of the German production sites. The agreement, announced a few days ago, defines a shared framework between the company and employees to manage the structural changes already initiated by the group. A supplementary company agreement will govern implementation at the individual sites, with the aim of combining industrial competitiveness and employment protection.

According to Gregor Baumbusch, CEO of Weinig, the new collective bargaining contract “… lays the foundations for implementing the transformation “together and consistently”, making the remaining German sites more efficient“. On the union side, Rainer Haag, chairman of the group Works Council, highlighted the commitments obtained: no redundancies for operational reasons, participation in the company’s economic success and greater attention to innovative proposals from employees.

The agreement is part of the broader reorganisation announced by Weinig in recent months. As part of this process, production at the Malterdingen plant will cease by the end of 2026 and be transferred to other German sites of the group, while sales, service and engineering activities will remain in place locally. The product portfolio, the company specifies, will remain unchanged.