Uniper Workers Ramp Up Pressure on Government to Rule Out Sale

Uniper SE’s labor representatives are ramping up the pressure on the German government to decide against an outright sale and instead list the utility on the stock market.

“We understand that there are again candidates expressing interest in a takeover of Uniper,” Harald Seegatz, head of Uniper’s workers council, told Bloomberg News in an emailed statement. “We consider any further takeover attempt a hostile act against the interests of employees and unions, which we will vehemently oppose.”

Uniper, once Germany’s largest importer of Russian gas, was nationalized at the height of Europe’s energy crisis after Moscow halted pipeline ...