Volkswagen closes 3 factories and cuts pay – Business and Analysis – Ansa.it

Volkswagen will close at least three factories. This is what the works council of the German car giant announced, according to what some media such as Bild and die Welt reported.

“The Board of Management wants to close at least three VW plants in Germany,” said the chairman of the Group’s works council, Daniela Cavallo, at an information event for employees in Wolfsburg. Cavallo said no plant is safe and all other sites will be reduced. In fact, the council fears that tens of thousands of jobs will be cut. The Group has just notified staff of these plans. The establishment of the Osnabrueckwhich recently lost a promising order from Porsche. There Volkswagen employs around 120,000 people in Germanyand about half of these are in Wolfsburg. The VW brand operates a total of ten plants in Germany, including six in Lower Saxony, three in Saxony and one in Hesse. In September, VW suspended the job security program that had been in place for more than 30 years.

“It is a deep stab in the heart of Volkswagen employees. In these terms, the IG Metall union opposed and rejected the plans to close the Volkswagen plants in Germany, described as “unacceptable”. “These aggressive plans are not accepted by the board of directors in any way and represent a break with everything we have experienced in the company over the past decades,” said a manager regional IG Metall Thorsten Gröger. According to the Works Council, the group plans to close at least three sites in Germany and cut tens of thousands of jobs.

“This is a deep stab in the heart of the hardworking VW workforce!” said Greek. “We expect that Volkswagen and its board of directors will present valid concepts for the future at the bargaining table, instead of fantasizing about job cuts, where the employer’s side is not yet this has shown much more than empty phrases,” he said. VW and the union will meet in Wolfsburg on Wednesday for the second round of coalition talks. “If VW confirms its dystopian path on Wednesday, the board must management to expect the necessary results from us,” said Groeger, according to the Handelsblatt. According to Cavallo, VW wants a broad reduction of ten percent in the company’s pay scale and zero increase over the next two years.

Scholz spokesman: ‘We are waiting for official news’

“VW is known to be in a difficult position. But for now there is no official news and we have to wait for VW to clarify.”.

This was said by the spokesman of the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Wolfgang Buechner, at a press conference in Berlin, answering a question about the plans that came out of the information published by the Volkswagen works council about closing at least 3 factories in Germany. The spokesperson recalled that Kanzler has already said a few weeks ago that “wrong decisions by management must not fall on the shoulders of workers and that jobs must be maintained”.