Volkswagen labour chief says confidence in CEO damaged but can be repaired
Workers say poor board communication has become the top grievance as Volkswagen weighs up to 50,000 more job cuts and possible plant changes, management said.
- Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume began a series of nine extraordinary works meetings on Tuesday in Wolfsburg, addressing significant employee backlash over the automaker's largest-ever restructuring plan.
- Facing intense global competition, US tariffs, and high German production costs, Volkswagen is pursuing aggressive transformation plans that could require up to 100,000 total job losses.
- An internal works council survey found employees and families are "unsettled and frightened" by the board's "disastrous external communication," ranking it as their primary grievance.
- During Tuesday's Wolfsburg meeting, Works Council chair Daniela Cavallo told Blume that trust in the board "has been damaged," as employees jeered and held signs protesting job cuts.
- Blume warned that the next few years are "decisive" for determining which carmakers remain viable, setting the stage for difficult negotiations with labor representatives over cost-cutting measures.
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Volkswagen workers boo boss during speech on job cuts
VW, long a titan of German industry, has struggled with Chinese competition, US tariffs and patchy demand in Europe, including for its electric vehicles. About 50,000 job cuts have already been agreed across the 10-brand Volkswagen Group -- mostly at VW, Audi and Porsche -- but the firm has said another 50,000 could be required worldwide to slash costs. Speaking in front of about 10,000 workers at VW's Wolfsburg factory, CEO Oliver Blume said fo…
The CEO of the German giant Blume started the tour of the plants from Wolfsburg to illustrate his plan. It lasts the reaction of the workers' representatives: "Insufficient information" about the fate of four factories in Germany
"We need to reduce complexity, simplify our structures in a coherent way and reduce costs," said Oliver Blume during a meeting with the workers at the group's headquarters in Wolfsburg
With its conversion plan for Europe's largest car manufacturers, VW CEO Oliver Blume encounters massive protest from the employees. The overall works council considers the trust in the Volkswagen boss to be damaged.
More than 10,000 Volkswagen employees, concentrated inside and outside pavilion 11 of the main plant of the automotive brand in Wolfsburg have received CEO Oliver Blume with booing and booing. IG Metall’s union representatives have shown banners with slogans such as “Stop breaking the agreement!” or “Our jobs are not the adjustment of your balance sheet!”, in the first of the nine meetings Blume will hold with Volkswagen’s staff to explain the b…
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