Tag: Downsizing
Conflict in the VW works council: Opposition candidate for Daniela Cavallo
VW works council boss Daniela Cavallo The conflict between the employees and the corporate management has intensified dramatically. (Photo: dpa) Wolfsburg IG Metall is a power in Wolfsburg. Around 90…
Bosch employees protest at three locations
Stuttgart, Munich For the future Bosch boss Stefan Hartung, Friday morning should offer a foretaste of the most difficult topic of his term of office, which begins on January 1:…
Bosch employees protest at three locations
Stuttgart, Munich For the future Bosch boss Stefan Hartung, Friday morning should offer a foretaste of the most difficult topic of his term of office, which begins on January 1:…
Outsourcing of the main plant is off the table
Opel plant in Eisenach The plant, which currently employs around 1400 people, is to be spun off into its own company. The factory is to remain docked with Opel in…
Fresenius Medical Care wants to cut hundreds of jobs in Germany
Fresenius Medical Care The group announced an austerity program at the beginning of November. (Photo: imago images / Jörg Halisch) bad Homburg The planned reduction of 5,000 jobs worldwide at…
Commerzbank agrees on details of the group restructuring
Commerzbank The board of directors wants to prevent redundancies if possible, but has not ruled them out as a last resort. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The Commerzbank top has agreed on…
Works council boss Cavallo attacks CEO Diess
Herbert Diess and Elon Musk The Tesla boss recently joined a VW management conference from his new headquarters in Texas. (Photo: VW) Wolfsburg Herbert Diess actually didn’t want to be…
Works council boss Cavallo attacks CEO Diess
Herbert Diess The VW boss defended his position at the works meeting. (Photo: dpa) Wolfsburg Herbert Diess actually didn’t want to be in Wolfsburg that Thursday. The VW boss had…
Opel works council criticizes the end of toolmaking
Opel in Rüsselsheim The planned closure of the tool shop will cause the next conflict between management and the works council. (Photo: dpa) Munich In addition to the forge and…
Volkswagen News: VW Supervisory Board has to postpone planning round
Transporter production at VW in Hanover At the moment it is still unclear which models will be produced in the factory in the future. (Photo: dpa) Düsseldorf, Berlin The next…
Plans for the Hanover plant could be the next point of contention
Herbert Diess The VW boss will attend the board meeting. (Photo: Bloomberg) Düsseldorf, Berlin Volkswagen boss Herbert Diess now wants to appear at the works meeting planned for next week.…
Opel closes toolmaking at the main plant in Rüsselsheim
Munich At the Hessian car manufacturer Opel, the dispute between management and union threatens to escalate. After the Stellantis subsidiary recently had to take severe criticism because of the planned…
Plans for the Hanover plant could be the next point of contention
Herbert Diess The VW boss will attend the board meeting. (Photo: Bloomberg) Düsseldorf, Berlin The mood is likely to be chilled when the supervisory boards of Volkswagen meet for their…
Volkswagen works council: “Unprecedented provocation from Diess”
Herbert Diess The head of the works council at VW criticized the head of the group clearly. (Photo: imago images / Lackovic) Dusseldorf New dispute between employee representatives and CEO…
Deutsche Bank will close 200 Postbank branches by the end of 2023
Branches of Deutsche Bank and Postbank For the remaining branches there is a location guarantee until the end of 2024. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Deutsche Bank is significantly thinning out the…
Short-time work at the Mercedes plant in Rastatt due to the chip crisis
Production in Rastatt The plant has more than 6,500 employees and a leading role in the Daimler production network for compact vehicles. (Photo: Daimler AG) Rastatt, Stuttgart Due to the…
VW plant in Wolfsburg threatens weakest production for decades
VW production in Wolfsburg The weak utilization of the main plant has repeatedly caused disputes between the works council and management. (Photo: Reuters) Dusseldorf Volkswagen is coming under massive pressure…
Facebook wants to appease the EU with 10,000 new jobs
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg The company founder goes through one of the most difficult phases in the company’s history with Facebook. (Photo: imago images / photothek) The technology group Facebook…
The deputy editor-in-chief’s weekly review
Good morning dear readers,A promise is a promise and has not been broken. Since Friday it has been on the table, the paper from the explorers of the SPD, Greens…
Refueling as expensive as in 2012 – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
Many Germans currently experience driving up to the gas station like a round of ghost trains. Diesel with an average of 1.526 euros and Super E10 with 1.647 euros are…