GM's Opel to push for 40-hour work week for German employees
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Automaker Adam Opel AG is proposing increasing the work week for its German employees to 40 hours from 35 hours to save money, according to a report Friday.
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Managers and workers representatives at German car maker Opel are set to meet Monday after a weekend vigil by employees protesting against the plans of parent company General Motors to cut thousands of jobs.
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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 ...
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No. 1 automaker trying to stem losses from unit; most cuts due in Germany next year. RUESSELSHEIM, Germany  - General Motors will cut up to 12,000 jobs over the next two years to reduce annual costs
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General Motors' GM.N German unit  Adam Opel AG will cut around 9,500 jobs at its loss-making  operations, a source who attended a briefing by the carmaker's  management on Thursday said.
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Germany is to bear the brunt of General Motors&#39; decision to axe about a fifth of its 62,000 European workers, although the US carmaker yesterday said it would stop short of factory closures.
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General Motors&#39; Adam Opel AG unit said Tuesday it had agreed with employee delegates to try to ensure the survival of its main plants in Germany beyond 2010, while finding &quot;socially acceptable&quot; ways of cutting back their work force
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Volkswagen, Europe's largest carmaker, has become the latest German firm to try to take on unions as it seeks to make major cost cuts.
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During much of Germany&#39;s postwar economic boom, as prosperity mounted and car sales multiplied, workers at the Opel automobile factory here
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Germany will be the hardest hit, the paper said, with 6,000 workers facing redundancy at it's Adam Opel business.
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Workers at German car firm Opel vote to continue strike action against parent firm GM's plans to cut 12,000 European jobs.
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I'm totally stressed out - German commuter this morning BERLIN (EuroNews) - More travel chaos is expected in Germany as a locomotive engineers' strike threatens to disrupt regional services.The latest and biggest in a series of strikes began at two o'clock in the morning local time and is to end at eight o'clock on Friday morning. Commuters in the east of the country and Berlin are particularly affected. "I'm totally stressed out" said one woman. "I have been here since six a.m. I was supposed to travel to Hof, but I can only get to Nuremburg and I have to wait for a train at 7.23." The engineers want a pay increase of around 30 percent and their own working contract. Their dispute with state rail company Deutsche Bahn has already lasted several months.
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General Motors'  European labor  force on Friday hailed news that the world's biggest carmaker  had decided to sell Belgian-made Opel Astras in North America  under the Saturn brand from late next year.
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General Motors Corp  aims to  quadruple sales of its Chevrolet brand cars in Germany within  seven years, the division&#39;s manager was quoted as saying on  Sunday.
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Nearly 40,000 people in Germany took part in protests over US auto giant General Motors&#39; plans to axe 12,000 jobs, about one-fifth of its European workforce.
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LANSING, Mich. Gov. Jennifer Granholm and executives from western and southeastern Michigan plan to head to Germany next week to see if they can't get more high-end auto and health-related jobs for Michigan.
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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.