VW May Cut 30,000 Jobs If No Agreement With Workers
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Volkswagen AG is threatening to eliminate 30,000 jobs ahead of next week&#39;s wage talks with unions as Europe&#39;s biggest carmaker seeks cost cuts similar to agreements reached by other German companies, including DaimlerChrysler AG.
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Volkswagen bosses warn that its German plants are barely profitable ahead of a work contracts meeting with unions on Friday.
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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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FRANKFURT -- Automaker Volkswagen AG said yesterday there is ''no room&quot; for wage increases as it prepares for pay talks with Germany's largest industrial union, and detailed proposals to trim labor costs by cutting paid breaks and increasing flexible working time.
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FRANKFURT Volkswagen said Monday that there was &quot;no room&quot; for wage increases, dismissing a union demand for a 4 percent annual increase and instead announcing plans to cut paid breaks and increase flexible working time.
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Volkswagen AG, Europe&#39;s biggest carmaker, may cut 30,000 jobs, or almost a fifth of its German workforce, if the labour union representing workers does not agree to a wage
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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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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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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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4,000 Volkswagen employees yesterday staged strikes against plans by the car manufacturer to freeze wages for two years. Volkswagen says it needs to cut costs because of competition from low-cost rivals, and
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Automaker Volkswagen said Monday there is &quot;no room&quot; for wage increases this year as it prepares for pay talks with Germany&#39;s largest industrial union.
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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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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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Volkswagen reiterated its demand for a two-year pay freeze Wednesday in the first round of wage negotiations expected to test the automaker&#39;s historically cozy relationship with its workers.
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Thousands of shell-shocked Volkswagen workers in Brussels were plotting their next moves, a day after hearing that 4,000 of the 5,300 jobs at the plant will be lost.
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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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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.