Volkswagen: VW Manager provides council of confidence – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Volkswagen brand chief Herbert Diess has asked the confidence vote after serious allegations by the councils to SPIEGEL information on Thursday.

The works of the Wolfsburg carmaker had written in a letter to the staff, you have the impression that the diesel scandal “from behind should be used to make personnel cuts, which were not subject to a few months ago”. It also says in the letter, the senior brand manager leave it “lack of reliability”.

Diess, the Volkswagen brand is since last July, therefore wanted to know from the mighty council boss Bernd Osterloh whether to leave the Group. The response of the council bosses was: “No.”

The conflict is so, however, not finished. On Monday, the Bureau of the VW supervisory board shall meet. Theme will be, among other things, the conflict between management and the works council at the Volkswagen brand.

Sources at the Porsche and Piëch families, which have more than 52 percent of VW ordinary shares, reportedly: The majority owner is against a dismissal of VW-brand chefs Diess. Representatives of the families want Diess and Osterloh call to jointly negotiate a possibly necessary job cuts and not fight out the quarrel in public.