Workers at German Opel plant stay off job in dispute over planned cuts
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Angry auto workers at an Adam Opel AG plant stayed off the job Monday to protest plans by parent company General Motors Corp.
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German carmaker Adam Opel AG told a group representing workers that it wanted to cut wages and benefits and change working hour arrangements, employee representatives said Wednesday.
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FRANKFURT : Hundreds of workers at German auto maker Volkswagen&#39;s Hanover plant walked off the job, as management and union representatives readied to resume deadlocked wage and job talks.
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Europe&#39;s biggest carmaker said 30,000 jobs could be cut in Germany if unions do not agree to cost-cutting plans. Volkswagen is pushing for a wage freeze and more flexibility in working hours to counteract falling sales.
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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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RUESSELSHEIM - Germany&#39;s Opel car factory at Ruesselsheim resumed production Monday after work had been disrupted by a wildcat strike at another plant.
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Workers at Opel auto plants in Bochum walked out Thursday as soon as the parent company, General Motors, announced it was cutting 10,000 jobs in Germany.
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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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The assembly lines at a factory in Bochum belonging to German car maker Opel remained silent again as workers prepared to vote whether to return to work after six days of wildcat strikes.
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The management and labor representatives of the car producer Opel began talks Monday on thecontroversial massive layoffs faced by its workers.
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Thousands of employees at General Motors Corp.'s European factories staged protests Tuesday against the automaker's plan to slash 12,000 jobs across the continent, while a shortage of parts from a striking German plant forced two other factories to stop production.
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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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Volkswagen says it may need to slash 30,000 jobs in Germany if unions refuse to agree to pay freezes.
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Troubled German car maker Opel, a unit of General Motors, is planning to extend the working week for employees from 35 to 40 hours without any corresponding rise in pay, the mass-circulation daily Bild reported.
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Striking train drivers brought parts of Germany's rail network to a standstill on Tuesday, backing their demands for a large pay increase with a walkout that affected tens of thousands of commuters.
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A strike at a General Motors factory in Germany over job cuts starts to affect production at other plants.
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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.