News from the near Kassel area, u.a. Northern Hesse, Göttingen and Marburg.
– Employees at automotive suppliers are calling for a collective agreement. Workers signed a collective agreement earlier this week:A four-hour warning strike began at the automotive supplier Hanomag Solutions in Baunatal and Kassel. The first warning strikes had already taken place at the beginning of May. Since previous negotiations have not resulted in an agreement, the employees reiterated their demand … ▷
In Niedenstein in northern Hesse 7 Hectares of land will be sold to the defense supplier JOWA, which supplies parts for the Leopard 2 tank. 1,5 Hectares of these are owned by the city. Am 26.05. City officials and the company advocated for the expansion of the commercial area to accommodate new warehouses- and production halls. Was justified … ▷
Kassel-Calden Airport is to be used increasingly for military purposes in the future. Managing director Lars Ernst says he is in talks with NATO about this. The airport is already being increasingly used by the Bundeswehr. According to a resolution by the supervisory board, defense should fly alongside drones and electric vehicles … ▷
Tumults at the AfD in the Werra-Meißner district The top candidate of the AfD in the Werra-Meißner district left the party in May. Berthold Hartmann accuses the regional association of radicalizing itself and has therefore left the party. The regional association, on the other hand, sees behavior that is harmful to the party on the part of the top candidate Hartmann. Allegations around … ▷
A banner was unfurled on a Kassel motorway feeder road in solidarity with the truckers' strike in southern Hesse. Around people have been on strike since mid-July 150 Truck driver for a Polish shipping company, the Mazur Group, at the Gräfenhausen motorway service area (Darmstadt-Dieburg district). An article about precarity in the supply chains of capital and solidarity on the edge of the A 5.
The Kassel initiative against femicides called on 11. February 2022 to a vigil in downtown Kassel, to bring anger and sadness to the streets at another victim of femicide. The vigil was held in memory of the victims of recent femicides … ▷
Last Monday in Bad Arolsen, a 32-year-old woman was killed by her husband with several knife wounds. In Kassel, the murdered woman was remembered at a vigil and the act classified as femicide.
The meat company Plukon operates in Gudensberg, knapp 20 km southwest of Kassel, Hesse's largest poultry slaughterhouse. There will be about 130.000 Chickens slaughtered per day. Plukon is over with a total 425 Million chickens killed each year the second largest chicken company in the EU – and thus a central player in the … ▷