The struggle for the last austerity program at Volkswagen escalated rapidly. After months of confrontation with the board of Volkswagen core brand of the council sees no basis for the cooperation so far. As a “serious problem of trust” for the purposes, the employee representative is now on the offensive – in the middle of the exhaust gas crisis.
To end the speculation about the security of jobs and plants in Germany, calls on the workers’ side the management to negotiate a “Pact for the Future” on. “In it we want to write solid product, piece count and investment commitments for the coming years,” writes the council to the employees of Europe’s largest carmaker.“We have the impression that the diesel scandal from behind should be used to make personnel cuts, which until a few months, no subject was”, says the letter from council boss Bernd Osterloh. The Volkswagen brand will deliberately denigrated.
The company was open to negotiations. “The security of the sites is in the interests of the Board”, said Human Resources Director Karlheinz Blessing with and promised rapid and constructive discussions.
dispute over bonuses
For dispute with the employee representatives also provide bonuses for the Executive Board. According to information obtained by SPIEGEL, VW’s top managers want most to accept a reduction in their bonuses, but not entirely without them. A council says the SPIEGEL: “The management seems to be lacking any sense of the seriousness of the situation.”
supervisory board chairman Hans Dieter Pötsch as received for his move to the top of the control panel a special payment of nearly ten million euros in compensation paid to make his Management Board contract would run until 2017th
CEO Matthias Müller had end of last year in favor of a group-wide reduction in bonuses. “It is clear that we have to tighten their belts, at all levels, from the board to the collective staff,” he said at the time of “Wirtschaftswoche”. Again had to be modeled the top of the company.
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