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“I sit sadly in front of my blank screen and gradually let my thoughts appear on the screen over this text using the keyboard.” If the chairman of a company’s board of directors addresses its workforce with lines like this, it can’t be a good omen.
Last Monday, the Schneider Group employees were informed that 70 employees had to be separated. Subsidiary Systemtech Schneider AG is affected. According to the aforementioned letter, Schreinerei Schneider AG and Systemtech Schneider employ a total of 105 people. With layoffs, two out of three employees have to find new jobs. Back in January, bz had reported that the traditional company Prattler had made nine layoffs.
The management justified the reduction in the letter to the staff with the “decrease in orders caused by the crisis in the crown” and with postponed assembly dates. The “production of components for the vehicle and wagon industry” is particularly affected. Negotiations with one of the main clients also failed. He decided not to make products that he had already ordered “from us at Pratteln”, but himself. The failure is 80 percent. He goes on to say that there is no way to make up for this with any measure in the world.
VR President Andreas Schneider, who also chairs the Basel Chamber of Commerce, mentions what he sees as the main culprit for Systemtech Schneider’s downfall: Stadler Rail.
Strong reproaches to the former most important client
Systemtech Schneider supplies Stadler Rail with train toilets. The modular toilet system is advertised under the name Toilino. “None of us understand what has happened in the last few days,” writes Schneider. The rejection of the offer to Stadler, which had offered advantages to both companies, demonstrates “once again the opacity of a large company.” Stadler Rail has “apparently forgotten that there is a whole family behind every employee.”
“Switzerland at the weekend” spoke to an affected employee who wants to remain anonymous. He says the problems in the train’s toilet division started before the crown crisis. Suppliers were paid so late that they no longer wanted to deliver. Production was so late that Stadler’s patience broke. The people of Thurgau drove to Pratteln with a truck and quickly removed the entire warehouse for the construction of the bath. “We were offered to work for a time at the Altenrhein plant,” says the fired employee.
Stadler Rail is fighting back
Yesterday there were no comments from Schreinerei Schneider AG. Stadler Rail writes that they reject the accusations “very clearly.” A solution would have been possible in spring 2020 that would have allowed operations to continue. “Unfortunately, Systemtech Schneider has rejected all the proposed solutions.”
Stadler took over the materials for his own orders. The first job interviews with Schneider employees are ongoing.
