At VW, threat of job losses hits nerves
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FRANKFURT Representatives of Volkswagen and its labor union faced off across a table Wednesday, opening a round of negotiations that will be closely watched here as a test of how long German workers can preserve their privileged place in the global auto
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Wage talks next month at German automaker Volkswagen appear off to a difficult start after the powerful IG Metall union demanded a four percent wage rise and job guarantees for its members.
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Warning strikes by workers angry over planned cost cuts at Volkswagen briefly halted output at three German plants on Friday, underscoring the standoff between Europe&#39;s biggest car maker and its workforce.
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Shares in Volkswagen VOWG.DE fell   more than 2 percent on Monday ahead of a vote by German   metalworkers union IG Metall on whether to reopen its contract   with Europe's biggest carmaker.
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Negotiators from Volkswagen and the IG Metall industrial union headed into a fifth round of wage talks Thursday, with the union threatening to launch a flurry of short warning strikes if it doesn&#39;t get the job guarantees and wage increases it&#39;s demanding.
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4,000 Volkswagen employees yesterday staged strikes against plans by the car manufacturer to freeze wages for two years. Volkswagen says it needs to cut costs because of competition from low-cost rivals, and
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Brussels braced for a major wave of lay-offs at the city's biggest employer after German carmaker Volkswagen announced plans to cut two-thirds of the jobs at its plant in the Belgian capital.
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Volkswagen bosses warn that its German plants are barely profitable ahead of a work contracts meeting with unions on Friday.
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FRANKFURT  - Around 15,000 workers at German car giant Volkswagen walked off the job in warning strikes aimed at turning up the pressure on management in deadlocked wage talks.
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Thousands of shell-shocked Volkswagen workers were meeting in the car park of their Brussels factory, the day after hearing that 4,000 of the 5,300 jobs at the plant will be lost, to plan their next moves.
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The auto parts retailer struggles through a difficult second quarter.
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Germany, with its high costs, reluctant consumers and restive auto workers, has become a major drag on the country's two largest carmakers, DaimlerChrysler and Volkswagen , which both reported mixed earnings on ...
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Volkswagen AG, Europe's biggest automaker, said Tuesday that 3,500 workers in Germany have signed up for severance packages as the company tries to pare down the number of employees and cut costs.
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The head of personnel at Volkswagen AG said the automaker will have to make dramatic reductions in jobs in Germany if it doesn't get the labor-cost savings it wants in ongoing wage talks, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
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Just days after it announced deep job cuts in Europe, the General Motors Corporation is battling a wildcat strike at one of its biggest German auto plants, and a threat of wider disruptions.
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Staff at three VW factories start a series of small scale warning strikes, as the carmaker continues talks with unions over cost-cutting plans.
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Famed for engineering prowess, the German auto industry is also rife with rivalries and internecine politics.