The head of the company is highly controversial, especially among employee representatives.
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Düsseldorf, Berlin The regular meeting of the VW supervisory board had not even started when the mood dropped to zero. Several sources in the supervisory body and in the group confirmed the Handelsblatt: In the preliminary discussion last Wednesday, the representatives of the employee side brought up the hardest gun against CEO Herbert Diess, which the co-determination law grants them. They expressed their distrust of Diess. It is the prelude to ousting him from the post.
The chairman of the supervisory board Hans Dieter Pötsch, Wolfgang Porsche as representative of the owner families and Prime Minister Stephan Weil for the shareholder Lower Saxony were present at the preliminary discussion. IG Metall boss Jörg Hofmann and works council chairwoman Daniela Cavallo were also in the room. The employee side could not be talked out of their plan.
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