Siemens workers held protests in Berlin and Nuremberg on Thursday to oppose moves to spin off the company’s Large Drives Applications (LDA) unit. Several hundred workers gathered on Nuremberg’s Siemensbrücke, a bridge named after the engineering company, and at its dynamo plant in Siemensstadt in the German capital during the annual shareholders’ meeting, the IG Metall trade union reported. “Given the ecological challenges that we face today we need alternatives to drive technologies,” IG Metall official Regina Katerndahl said. “We can and should develop these here and link them up to digitali…