According to Reuters, the German metal worker union Ig Metall said that nearly 100,000 workers joined the strike team of the German factory in Europe, the largest car manufacturer, to protest the company’s management of the management of wages and closing the German factories, and threatened Take further union action.
Ig Metall revealed that 98,650 employees in nine factorys in Germany participated in the strike. Among them, the early workers strike for two hours, and the evening shift workers planned to get off work in advance.
The chief negotiator of IG METALL THORSTEN GROEGER said: “This is the first huge impact brought by the winter protests. The Volkswagen Group should wake up and eventually put on the nightmare -like closing factory plan.”
Sources said that Volkswagen Group has 70,000 employees in the main factories in Wolfsburg, Germany. Two hours of strike means that hundreds of cars such as Volkswagen Golf models cannot be produced.
In addition to the Volkswagen Group headquarters in Wolfsburg and the Hanover factory with 14,000 employees, the affected factories also include Volkswagen Pure Electric Vehicle Factory located in ZWickau, Germany.
Unless Volkswagen and Trade Unions reached an agreement in the fourth round of salary negotiations on December 9, the public’s strike may be upgraded to 24 hours or unlimited shutdown work, which will lead to the decline in the output of the public, exacerbating the decline in delivery and the plunge in profit plunge. Influence.
At present, European auto manufacturers are difficult to respond to the weak demand for automobiles, high production costs, fierce competition from Chinese competitors, and the speed of electric vehicle transformation slower than expected. This is the first time that Volkswagen Group has considered closing its factories in Germany in its 87 years to reduce costs and increase profits.
It is reported that Ig Metall’s alternative measures last week will save 1.5 billion euros (about 1.58 billion U.S. dollars), including the abandonment of employees’ prizes in 2025 and 2026. However, the management of Volkswagen Group believes that these measures are unrealistic, but they are delaying things that inevitably happen.