However, trade unions argue that many people have already quit GE Switzerland and that the company only agreed to the granting of some concessions following intervention by the labour groups.
The unions say they are concerned that GE will continue its restructuring plans in Europe and the Swiss company sites could still be at risk. The production of gas turbines is under particular pressure, they say.
GE Switzerland has already shed about 2,000 jobs since 2016 and will employ some 2,700 after the latest round of restructuring.
In 2014 GE Switzerland took over the energy division of the French industrial group Alstom. Two years later it slashed 1,200 jobs.
Train line between Brig and Domodossola interrupted
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One day after a derailment approximately 15 kilometres from the Swiss border, BLS is running buses for passengers between Preglia and Domodossola, in Italy.
Swiss football boss wants crackdown on individual hooligans
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The head of the Swiss Football League says he prefers a harsher approach to individual hooligans rather than collective punishment measures affecting all fans.
Amherd: Council of Europe is ‘as urgently needed as ever’
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The Swiss government emphasised on Sunday the vital role of the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe, 75 years after it was founded.
Swiss minister: Italy will back Switzerland in EU talks
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Bern can count on the backing of Italy as it re-enters talks with the European Union on future relations, Viola Amherd says.
Student protestors at University of Lausanne continue pro-Palestine sit-in
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Since Thursday, a hall on campus has been occupied by students calling for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions and a ceasefire in Gaza.
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Swiss public broadcasters RTS and SRF are drastically reducing their communications via the social network X (formerly Twitter).
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General Electric to slash 450 more Swiss jobs
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The company, which generated profits of $954 million (CHF952 million) last year, blamed the latest cuts on “financially challenging conditions”. But its GE Power division reported an operating loss of nearly $1 billion globally. The two plants outside Zurich do business in the gas-fired power plants sector. “Demand for power generation from fossil fuels is…
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They are among 6,500 positions being slashed across Europe following Alstom’s sale of its power generation and grid businesses to GE in November of last year. Alstom states on its website that it “is now a global player fully focused on transport”. It currently employs 5,500 people in Switzerland. The positions being lost in Switzerland…
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