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WOLFSBURG, Germany (Reuters) -Volkswagen plans to shut at least three factories in Germany, lay off tens of thousands of staff and shrink its remaining plants in Europe's biggest economy as it ...
Volkswagen workers launched rolling two-hour strikes Monday at nine plants across Germany to underscore their resistance to pay cuts and factory closures the company says are necessary to cope ...
Union boss tells workers that VW plans to shut three plants in Germany, as well as slash jobs and cut salaries in response to rising financial pressure.
Volkswagen has 10 assembly and parts plants in Germany, where 120,000 of its 684,000 workers worldwide are based. As Europe’s largest carmaker, the company is a symbol of the country’s consumer prosperity and economic growth after World War II.
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 governor of Germany's Lower Saxony region, Stephan Weil, who sits on the company's board of directors, agreed the company needed to take action but called on Volkswagen to avoid plant closings by relying on alternative ways to reduce costs: “The state government will pay particularly close attention to that,” he said in a statement ...
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 ...
Plant moved from Mandaluyong to Quezon City in 1974. DMG later went out of business in the mid-1980s. Dublin: Europe, Ireland: Dublin: VW Beetle VW Type 2: 1950: Mid-1980s: Assembled the first VW built outside Germany. Plant belonged to Motor Distributors Limited, VW's local distributor. Plant moved from Shelbourne Road in Ballsbridge to Naas ...