A German government minister, Horst Seehofer, has claimed that he is joining in a boycott of Nokia handsets after the company announced it will close Germany’s last surviving wireless handset factory.
Speaking to reporters in Berlin, the agriculture minister stated that he was changing to another handset “because I don’t like the way they are doing this.”
This follows similar declarations from Dietmar Muscheid, a trade union leader in North Rhine-Westphalia state, and Peter Struck, the Social Democratic whip in the federal parliament, both of which have made their boycotting of Nokia handsets very public.
The plant at Bochum, West Germany employs 2,300 people who will lose their jobs when the manufacturing operation is to moved to Cluj, Romania where the cost of labor is cheaper.
(Via Earthtimes)
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