Dortmund.
Strike on Westenhellweg: The employees in the Karstadt branch in Dortmund are protesting today against the planned closure of their location.
In Dortmund and other cities, employees are leaving Karstadt on strike today (Wednesday, April 12). With your warning strike do they also want against the planned closure of many Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof stores in North Rhine-Westphalia and throughout Germany are protesting. In fact, it’s about more money.
In NRW According to Verdi, only the branches that are on the scratch list stand – in the Ruhr area they are Dortmund, Essen, Hagen, Gelsenkirchen and Duisburg. NRW has been hit particularly hard by the wave of closures: Galeria wants to close 15 of all 31 department stores in the region.
Karstadt strike in Dortmund: branch open today?
There were already strikes in Hamburg, Hesse and Baden-Württemberg on Holy Saturday. However, sales in the striking branches continued. That was also for the strike on Wednesday Dortmund planned. Whether the branch on Westenhellweg or the whole day open to customers stays, we will see in the course of the day.
The Germany-wide warning strikes are correct (especially in the safe branches) not only against the closure plans. Instead, the employees of the remaining branches are demanding more wages – and a return to the Retail Tariff. For years, the employees in Dortmund have also given up money to support the restructuring of the chain.
Karstadt Kaufhof in Dortmund: Only one of the four houses remained
In early 2010 it still had three Karstadt stores and one Kaufhof in the center of Dortmund – only one has remained. That closed in early 2010 Karstadt technology house on Kampstraße (today Basecamp). At the end of 2020 it also closed Kaufhof on Westenhellweg. Then in spring 2021 it was over Karstadt Sports a sports check at the Alter Markt.
A small ray of hope (at least for the vacant city center of Dortmund) is the entrepreneur’s idea Friedrich Wilhelm Goebel: He wants to take over the rental contracts of several Galeria branches and the shops in “aachener” convert. Göbel founded this fashion chain based in Dortmund two years ago after taking over the management of the Hagen Fashion chain Sinn had to give to his ex-wife.
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