Christiane Benner was running to become chair of Europe’s largest union IG Metall this spring when she decided to embark on a bold experiment.
As the employee representative on the supervisory board of Continental, she was locked in tough negotiations over the German automotive supplier’s planned closure of a provincial brake parts factory that was putting 600 jobs at risk.
Instead of blocking the plans, Benner contacted an IG Metall colleague on the board of local heat pumpmaker Stiebel Eltron, which has since agreed to consider at least 300 Continental staff for roles at its own expanding plant, with Continental picking up the bill to retrain them.
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