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On November 11th and 12th, 2021, the "Expanded Siemens Chile 2021 union meeting" was held in the city of Santiago de Chile, at IndustriAll Chile CONSTRAMET facilities, with the participation of representatives of Siemens unions from all over Chile grouped in the Siemens Chile Union Federation.

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On October 5th/6th, 2021, 31 delegates from 20 countries* took part in a meeting of the Siemens Europe Committee (SEC) in Lisbon. One delegate from the Czech Republic, one from the UK, and the delegates from Hungary, Slovakia and Sweden were missing.

On September 22nd/23rd, 2021, the European Works Council of Siemens Energy had its constitutive meeting in Munich. 22 delegates from 13 countries (Germany, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Hungary, Norway, Czech Republic, Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, Bulgaria and Romania) took part.

The Collective Bargain Agreement CBA of Kalwa Switchgear & Switchboard, Transformer, Nashik & Aurangabad is pending more than 28 months. Something is definitely wrong - the Indian colleagues appeal at IG Metall and Industriall Global Union to stand with them - and we do!

The Indian Siemens Workers Union has signed a Wage Settlement with the Company for the workmen of the Goa Verna locations. The Union has been formed in 2018 and raised the demands of wages and service conditions for the workforce in the Executive Technician Category.

On Tuesday, February 2nd, Siemens Energy CEO Christian Bruch announced the reduction of almost 7 700 jobs globally. The most concerned countries are Germany (about 3 000 jobs), the US (1 000 – 1 500 jobs) and France (several hundreds of jobs). In Germany, IG Metall critizises the plans and declares its solidarity with all concerned workers and their unions.

On December 17th, 2020, the Siemens Europe Committee (SEC) had its first meeting of the new term of office. The meeting had to be held as online meeting due to the unchanged situation caused by the corona virus. 35 delegates from 22 countries took part in the meeting.

The Czech union OS KOVO had invited union representatives from Siemens in the Czech Republic, Germany and Austria to their annual meeting. The meeting had been postponed because of the situation caused by corona and took place on August 26th, 2020. At this time Prague had a low level of the virus. Nonetheless, the necessary precautions were taken during the meeting.

The pandemic disease of Covid-19 has affected Siemens facilities all over the world. The union representatives at various locations have done their best to guarantee as well the maximum standard of protection for all employees as also the best possible standard of social security and protection of the wages.

This year´s meeting of the Siemens Europe Committee (SEC) had to take place online as a “virtual” meeting because of the travel restrictions as consequence of the spread of the new corona virus.