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Daniela Cavallo of Volkswagen’s General Works Council said that the faction would “fight bitterly” against the potential plant closure measures, while a spokesperson for IG Metall described ...
This is not sabre-rattling in the collective bargaining round," Daniela Cavallo, Volkswagen's works council head, told several hundreds of employees at the carmaker's biggest plant, in Wolfsburg ...
Volkswagen has reached a deal with the IG Metall trade union which will avert plant closures in Germany and avoid immediate compulsory redundancies. The two sides have, however, agreed to cut more ...
VW last closed a plant in 1988 in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania; its Audi division is in discussions about closing an underutilized plant in Belgium. Far-right parties fueled by popular disenchantment with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s quarreling, three-party coalition government scored major gains in Sept. 1 elections in Thueringia and Saxony ...
Volkswagen is weighing whether to close factories in Germany for the first time in its 87-year history as it moves to deepen cost cuts amid rising competition from China’s electric vehicle makers.
The Chattanooga plant opened 23 years after the closing of the Westmoreland Assembly Plant near New Stanton, Pennsylvania, in 1988. [11] The Westmoreland plant, which began operation in 1978, had been characterized by labor unrest and suffered from poor networking between Westmoreland and Volkswagen headquarters in then-West Germany.
VW Group's 62nd plant, the Volkswagen Group of America plant is located on a 1,350 acres (550 ha) site and was inaugurated in May 2011, anticipating an annual capacity of 150,000 cars. 35°04′38″N 85°08′12″W / 35.077283°N 85.136576°W / 35.077283; -85.136576 ( Volkswagen Chattanooga
1985: Volkswagen sells former American Motors stamping plant in South Charleston, West Virginia; 1987: (November, Thanksgiving weekend) Volkswagen announces it will close Westmoreland Assembly. [4] 1988: (July 14), Volkswagen closes Westmoreland Assembly. [21] 1988: VW sells its air-conditioning and plastic-trim plant in Texas to Valeo SA. [1]