Walkouts at three VW German sites
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Workers at Volkswagen's German plants have started a series of small scale strikes as the carmaker continues to discuss cost-cutting plans with unions.
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Volkswagen again threatened to move jobs abroad as management sat down with unions to resume wage talks at a time when Europe's biggest car maker is seeking to impose controversial and painful cost cuts on its workforce.
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Volkswagen AG and metalworkers union IG Metall both dug in their heels on Sunday before increasingly bitter wage talks resume that could lead to the first strike ever at Europe&#39;s biggest carmaker.
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GM's plans to cut 12,000 jobs across Europe spark a walk out of a German car plant likely to be hit by the cuts.
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Negotiators from Volkswagen AG and Germany's biggest industrial union held a new round of wage talks Thursday, with the union threatening a flurry of short warning strikes if it doesn't get the job guarantees ...
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FRANKFURT : Hundreds of workers at German auto maker Volkswagen&#39;s Hanover plant walked off the job, as management and union representatives readied to resume deadlocked wage and job talks.
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FRANKFURT, Germany -- Production resumed Monday at a General Motors plant in Ruesselsheim that was idled by a lack of parts after workers at another factory staged a six-day walkout protesting threatened job cuts.
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Volkswagen said it would stop production of its Golf model at its Brussels plant, shocking workers and government leaders who fear more than 3,500 jobs could be lost. The company said it would move all Golf production to plants in MÃ¶sel and Wolfsburg in Germany as part of plans to cut production in Western Europe because of falling demand. A VW spokeswoman, Evelyne Helin, said 1,500 jobs could be salvaged of the 5,300 at the assembly plant.
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Germany saw fresh clashes Monday between  protesters and police ahead of this week&#39;s G8 summit as anti-globalisation activists fought to keep their cause from being hijacked by a violent minority.
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German union leaders say more than 12,000 workers have staged warning strikes at three Volkswagen plants, while a sixth round of contract talks was scheduled in Hannover.
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The world&#39;s largest automaker launched negotiations with European employees after it unveiled the cost-cutting plans in October, triggering days of walkouts at GM&#39;s German plants.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Anti-capitalist protesters clashed with police, injuring eight, as they tried to blockade routes to a Group of Eight summit in northern Germany. police said.
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Carmaker Volkswagen could become the next venue for strikes after personnel chief Peter Hartz called for a two-year wage freeze Monday.
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Volkswagen&#39;s labor negotiations in Germany began Wednesday with union demands for raises and job guarantees and company calls for a two-year pay freeze.
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"It is true that we support infrastructure in economically less privileged regions, also in Germany"  Anti-Nokia anger in Germany for closing a factory is growing. Besides public demonstrations several top level politicians are publicly ditching the firm's phones. via MobileMonday
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Workers at Opel auto plants in Bochum walked out Thursday as soon as the parent company, General Motors, announced it was cutting 10,000 jobs in Germany.
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Some 4,000 workers at three Volkswagen AG plants in Germany held brief work stoppages early Friday as the union launched a promised campaign of warning strikes to underline their resistance a company demand for a two-year pay freeze.