{"id":2857,"date":"2024-10-30T08:34:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T08:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2024-10-30T08:34:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T08:34:10","slug":"scholtz-was-alarmed-by-job-cuts-wage-cuts-and-factory-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=2857","title":{"rendered":"Scholtz was alarmed by Job cuts, wage cuts and factory closures"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cVolkswagen, the world’s largest car company, the heart of German industry and symbol of German engineering, is now facing historic layoffs,\u201d Bild reported Tuesday, volkswagen plans to close at least three plants and lay off tens of thousands of workers, the company’s labor and Management Committee said Tuesday at a staff information Wolfsburg in Niedersachsen?Land, wages will also be cut by 18 per cent.<\/p>\n

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\nLocal time 2024 workers protest outside the Volkswagen plant during a strike over a cost-cutting plan in OSNABLK, Niedersachsen?Land, on October 29.<\/p>\n

In September, VW announced it was likely to close factories and lay off workers, and considered ending a 30-year employment protection agreement that promised no job cuts until the end of the 2029 year. \u201cOur production costs are too high,\u201d management wrote to employees. \u201cThe cost per vehicle is significantly higher than that of our competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the German news agency DPA, the Volkswagen and Industrial Commission has been working for weeks to resolve possible factory closures and lay-offs. The Labor Commission said specific plans are now on the agenda. \u201cThe board wants to close at least three Volkswagen plants in Germany,\u201d said Daniela Cavallo, chairman of the committee, on Tuesday. She added that the remaining factories should also be downsized and that the company had now informed staff of those plans. \u201cAll German Volkswagen factories are affected by these plans,\u201d Cavallo said. \u201cNo one is safe!\u201d The Labor Commission said tens of thousands of jobs were at risk of unemployment.<\/p>\n

Volkswagen employs about 120,000 people in the country, with about half working at the Wolfsburg’s headquarters and main plant, according to the German news agency. VW has 10 plants in Niedersachsen?Land, six in Saxony ? Sachsen?Land and one in Hessen?Land. The Labor Commission said the most risky Osnabr\u00fcck was the Volkswagen plant in Niedersachsen?Land, which had just lost an order from the Volkswagen Group’s Porsche Motor Company.<\/p>\n

\u201cBild\u201d said that the board is meeting internally, but the outside is full of anger: Volkswagen Workers 28 at the plant to protest the German auto giant’s austerity wave. The banner read: \u201cOur demands are reasonable and fair!\u201d Volkswagen employees also announced that they would put up fierce resistance until the factory was occupied.<\/p>\n

German media mostly think the public move is\u201cHelpless move.\u201d. \u201cVW is like a big house with lots of adjunct buildings to support its income,\u201d the leipzig-based people’s daily commented. \u201cAs long as the Chinese market is booming, Audi, the group’s subsidiary, is making a lot of money from its high-end strategy, and Porsche still has a sales record, it is enough to ignore the need to renovate old rooms.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the weekly star, VW has a chronic bloated workforce that has worked there for decades and is paid above average wages. Standing up to change may seem like self-preservation, but it only postpones what should have happened a long time ago: the bloated staffing structure of car companies must end.<\/p>\n

\u201cBild\u201d revealed that German Chancellor Scholtz 28 has been involved. Scholtz argued that righting past wrongs should not come at the expense of labour and called for \u201cPreserving and preserving employment\u201d. Sebastian Le?na, the CDU leader in Niedersachsen?Land, demanded that \u201cScholtz must put Volkswagen and the car industry at the top of the agenda of the Industrial Summit. Saving Germany as a car-producing country is a top priority,\u201d said Christiane Dours, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party’s parliamentary caucus, one of the country’s ruling parties, volkswagen’s problem is more related to\u201cThe EU Commission President von der Leyen from the CDU\u201d: \u201cThe fuel ban and unrealistic vehicle restrictions should be completely abolished as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next meeting of the board of Directors and the Union is scheduled to take place on the 30th, when a second round of negotiations will take place on the collective bargaining agreement of Volkswagen. Bild said it would be difficult to reach an agreement. The board wanted a 10 per cent pay cut and the Labour committee a 7 per cent increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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