Unions and VW narrowing differences
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FRANKFURT Volkswagen and its workers entered a critical week in their wage negotiations Monday, with signs that a compromise was taking shape even as protests flared at factories across Germany.
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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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Volkswagen AG, Europe&#39;s largest carmaker, wants German workers to agree to a two-year wage freeze to cut costs amid a stagnating market, dismissing a union demand for a 4 percent yearly raise.
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Famed for engineering prowess, the German auto industry is also rife with rivalries and internecine politics.
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WOLFSBURG, Germany : Around 4,000 workers at three factories of German car giant Volkswagen halted production for about an hour overnight in the first official warning strikes aimed at putting pressure on management in the deadlocked wage talks, unions
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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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Representatives from German carmaker Volkswagen AG and a labor union said Friday they had agreed to increase working hours at plants in western Germany by more than four hours a week to 33 hours, without any increase in pay.
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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 demanded a two-year wage freeze for the 170,000-strong workforce at Europe&#39;s biggest car maker yesterday, provoking union warnings of imminent conflict at key pay and conditions negotiations.
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LONDON, November 2  - The German automotive giant, Volkswagen AG (VOW.ETR), continued its negotiations with the labour union today on its planned labour cost reductions.
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When management and unions at Volkswagen meet in a plush Hanover hotel later this week, the future of Europe's biggest car maker will be at stake.
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A union representing Volkswagen workers on Thursday threatened to call for short warning strikes if no wage deal is reached this month, though union leaders say they're still willing to discuss ways to lower ...
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Volkswagen AG, Europe&#39;s largest carmaker, wants German workers to agree to a two-year wage freeze to cut costs amid a stagnating market in place of the 4 percent yearly raise unions are demanding.
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Volkswagen, Europe's largest carmaker, becomes the latest German firm to try and update controversial labour agreements.
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FRANKFURT Germany, with its high costs, reluctant consumers and restive auto workers, has become a major drag on the country&#39;s two largest car manufacturers, DaimlerChrysler and Volkswagen, both of which reported mixed earnings on Thursday.
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A Volkswagen worker protests with a sign reading &quot;Captain Hartz, it&#39;s a trip on the Titanic for us&quot; during a warning strike at the Volkswagen factory in Hanover, northern Germany, on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004.
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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 ...