Back in January, Nokia announced that it would be closing one of its Germany based manufacturing plants in order to build a factory in Romania where the cost of labor is considerably cheaper.
Of course this sparked a bit of an outcry due to the loss of so many Jobs, blackening Nokia’s name in Germany somewhat and prompting politicians to publicly boycott the company (indeed, many of the people I know here in Munich have vowed to steer clear of Nokia).
At the time of the announcement, 300 workers demonstrated outside Nokia’s Dusseldorf offices for fair redundancy payments. The result it seems, as reported by The Earth Times, is 200 million Euros which Nokia has just announced it will be paying to workers of the soon to close Bochum factory on the back of an agreement with the German Unions.
Better than a kick in the teeth but the German public will still likely bear a grudge against Nokia for a time at retail, especially when alternatives like the iPhone have just had such a dramatic price cut.
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