German Volkswagen said the negative winds in the car industry meant it could not ignore the closure of facilities in its home country and should abandon its long-standing commitment to job protection, which has been in place since 1994 and prohibits layoffs until 2029.<\/p>\n
Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume said on Monday that the European automotive industry is in a very difficult and serious situation.<\/p>\n
New competitors entering the European markets expressed Germany's deteriorating position as a production center and the need to act decisively.<\/p>\n
Thomas Schaefer, CEO of Volkswagen's Passenger Vehicles division, said efforts to reduce costs have yielded results, but counterwinds have strengthened significantly.<\/p>\n
European automakers are facing increasing competition from cheap Chinese electric cars.<\/p>\n
The company's semi-annual results show that it will not achieve its goal of saving \u20ac10 billion by 2026.<\/p>\n
The discussion about closures and layoffs is about the company's main Volkswagen brand.<\/p>\n
Operating earnings of the main brand from \u20ac1.64 billion to \u20ac966 million (1.1 billion) in the previous year $) has fallen.<\/p>\n
The group also includes SEAT and Skoda \u2047 , as well as luxury Audi and Porsche brands with higher profit margins than mass-market vehicles produced by Volkswagen.<\/p>\n
The company has tried to cut costs through early retirement and acquisitions that prevent forced layoffs, but now says these measures may not be enough.<\/p>\n
Additional measures affecting factories or job guarantees will be negotiated with workers' representatives.<\/p>\n
The closure will be the first such event since VW \u2047 's U.S. factory in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, closed in 1988, according to the DPA news agency.<\/p>\n
Union officials and workers' representatives attacked the idea of shutting down or laying off workers.<\/p>\n
Thorsten Groeger, chief negotiator of the IG Metall industrial union VW \u2047 , said on the union's website that the management's approach is not only narrow-minded, but also dangerous, because it risks destroying the heart of Volkswagen \u2047 .<\/p>\n
Daniela Cavallo, senior employee representative, \u2047 Management failed... The result is an attack on our employees, locations and employment contracts. He said no factory would close.<\/p>\n
Stephan Weil, the governor of Germany's Lower Saxony region, who sits on the company's board of directors, agreed that the company should take action, but Volkswagen \u2047 i relied on alternative ways of reducing costs, urging it to avoid factory closures: \u2047 The state government will pay for this pay special attention to this \u2047 said dpa in a statement reported by the news agency.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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