Volkswagen squares up to unions
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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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Volkswagen says it may need to slash 30,000 jobs if unions refuse to agree to pay freezes at next week's talks.
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HANOVER, Germany  - German engineering union IG   Metall has extended until Wednesday its ultimatum to Volkswagen   VOWG.DE to provide binding and concrete investments that will   secure jobs for its German workforce.
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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 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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HANOVER, GERMANY -- Under pressure to cut costs and improve earnings, Volkswagen struck a far-reaching compromise with its workers Wednesday, winning a 28-month pay freeze and lower pay for new hires in return for a no-layoff guarantee until 2012.
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FRANKFURT : Labour conflict looks set to boil over in the German automobile sector in the coming weeks as car makers such as Volkswagen and Opel seek to impose rigorous belt-tightening measures as an answer to chronically weak demand.
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Volkswagen and its workers launched crucial wage negotiations Wednesday expected to test the tradition of close labor-management collaboration at the struggling automaker.
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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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Volkswagen resumed crucial wage talks with its workers Tuesday, with the two sides haggling over the automaker's push for a two-year wage freeze in return for a no-layoff pledge.
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Representatives from Volkswagen AG and Germany's biggest industrial 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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Representatives from Volkswagen AG and Germany's biggest industrial 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 ...Comment
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Volkswagen AG, Europe&#39;s biggest carmaker, faces production losses at its Wolfsburg headquarters after a sixth set of contract talks with union negotiators on cost cuts, job security and pay ended without agreement.
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Wage negotiations between Volkswagen AG and Germany&#39;s biggest industrial union broke up without agreement Thursday, but the two sides agreed to hold more talks next week even as the union presses ahead with plans for a flurry of short work stoppages.
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Automaker Volkswagen AG and Germany&#39;s biggest industrial union said Tuesday they have made some progress in difficult pay negotiations, but were cautious on prospects of a quick deal in talks that were marked by worker protests.
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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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German metalworkers union IG Metall   agreed on Monday to reopen Volkswagen's VOWG.DE wage contract   but rejected management's plans to increase working hours   without extra pay at Europe's biggest carmaker.