In response to a bitter dispute with management over layoffs and potential factory closures, workers at Volkswagen have launched a series of warning strikes. The strikes, which will last four hours at nine different sites across Germany, coincide with upcoming cost-cutting talks between the company and labor representatives.
over layoffs and what would be the first factory closures on German soil for Europe’s largest car maker, a union statement said on Thursday.
Volkswagen on Thursday said the management and workers representatives remained in dialogue to collaboratively develop viable, long-term solutions that balance economic stability and secure employment prospects. “It borders on mockery when Oliver Blume stands in front of the work force and wishes them a Merry Christmas, while at the same time the VW board would prefer to put letters of termination under the Christmas tree for the employees,” IG Metall negotiator Thorsten Groeger said on Thursday.
Volkswagen Layoffs Factory Closures Warning Strikes Cost-Cutting IG Metall
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