Employees take action over plans to axe at least three plants in first domestic closures in company’s 87-year history. Da The Guardian
Workers at Volkswagen factories in Germany will strike from Monday over the carmaker’s plans to lay off thousands of people, cut pay and close plants for the first time in its home country.
Announcing that “warning strikes”, which usually last a few hours, will begin at all VW plants, Thorsten Gröger, the union IG Metall’s lead negotiator with VW, said: “If need be, it will be the toughest collective bargaining battle Volkswagen has ever seen.”
The union leader accused VW managers of making the situation worse: “Volkswagen has set fire to our collective agreements,” Gröger said.
