Volkswagen heads into wage negotiations
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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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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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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 AG workers staged a new round of brief stoppages early Monday, keeping up pressure on the automaker ahead of wage talks in which the company is sticking to a demand for a two-year pay freeze.
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Management and unions at Volkswagen have sat down for talks about a vast cost-cutting programme, including the loss of up to 20,000 jobs and the abolition of the four-day week for the German workers of Europe's biggest car maker.
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Workers at Volkswagen's German plants have started a series of small scale strikes as the carmaker continues to discuss cost-cutting plans with unions.
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Negotiations between VW and unions about radical cost savings at its German factories resume against a backdrop of falling profits at Europe's largest car maker.
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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More than 30,000 jobs could be at risk at automaker Volkswagen if labor unions refuse to forego wage rises and make other concessions in upcoming negotiations, a top manager was quoted as saying Thursday &#151; comments that drew a sharp response from Germany's largest industrial union.
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Volkswagen challenged its workers with a tough wage plan on Monday ahead of talks seen as a gauge of their readiness to favor job security over pay
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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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HANOVER - About 4,000 Volkswagen workers stayed off the job for about an hour Friday to press demands for higher wages that remained unresolved after a fifth round of talks between their union and management at Europe&#39;s largest car maker.
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Management and unions at German auto maker Volkswagen reached an agreement on Wednesday that will bring an end to their long-running wage dispute, a union official said.