UAW's Gettelfinger says automakers "posturing"
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Detroit's Big Three automakers are "posturing" when they say they need a $30 reduction in hourly wages and benefits as they try to return to profitability, the United Auto Workers union president said on Friday.
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HANOVER - Management at Volkswagen and union leaders were locked in tough wage talks Tuesday as thousands of workers at Europe&#39;s largest car maker staged more warning strikes.
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Volkswagen AG has warned its German workers that more than 30,000 jobs could be lost if they don't agree to a pay freeze and other concessions, raising the stakes ahead of negotiations due to start next week.
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About 2,000 workers stayed off the job Friday at a General Motors plant in Germany threatened by job cuts, while the company's European president attempted to reassure employees that the auto giant hadn't fixed how many jobs would go in the country &#151; a prime target in its cost-cutting plan.
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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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Workers at Germany&#39;s automobile giant Volkswagen (VW) have staged warning strikes in the on-going wage dispute with the management.
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HANOVER, Germany - Several thousand Volkswagen AG workers took to the streets Tuesday to press their demand for wage increases and pay guarantees as the automaker prepared to resume pay negotiations with Germany&#39;s biggest industrial union.
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The head of VW's workers' council said in an interview published Monday he wanted assurances that luxury car maker Porsche would respect contract agreements and preserve jobs if it bought the European auto giant.
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Volkswagen AG, Europe&#39;s largest carmaker, aims to freeze wages and save jobs at its German factories in upcoming wage negotiations with workers.
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Volkswagen AG, Europe's biggest automaker, said Friday it was open to labor union demands for job guarantees if employees agree to work longer for the same pay.
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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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UAW calls first nationwide action against carmaker since 1970.
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DETROIT, Oct. 20 -- Workers at three more local unions of the United Auto Workers have rejected a tentative contract agreement between the UAW and Chrysler, even as union leaders from Detroit spent the latter part of the week lobbying for yes votes.
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The head of the United Auto Workers union on Monday said that a strike against the struggling U.S. auto industry remains a possibility should workers be unable to agree on terms with the three Detroit-based automakers in contract talks starting this week.
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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 and wage increases it is demanding.
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Leaders of Germany's auto industry rejected a recent rash of criticism that they lack initiative to build more environmentally friendly cars, saying in comments published Sunday they were working on new, ...Comment
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Volkswagen and its union traded threats Wednesday ahead of renewed wage talks, with several thousand workers staging short work stoppages and the German carmaker&#39;s personnel chief warning of dramatic job cuts if the company doesn&#39;t get cost