German Workers Demand A Greater Slice Of VW Profits

VW’s workers from its German plants want a 6.5% pay rise and demand a share of the automaker’s record sales.

The IG Metall union from Germany requested a pay increase between 5% and 6.5% for almost 100,000 workers at the company’s six plants located in the western part of the country. In 2012 VW employees won a 4.3% pay rise, part of a 13-month salary contract. Bernd Osterloh, head of VW’s works council and member of IG Metall’s executive board said that the workers’ demand is broadly in line with the labor union’s claims for almost 3.7 million metal and engineering employees in Germany.



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USNA1999 - 1/31/2013 1:43:50 PM

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Here we go again, these damn unions want to suck the living out of everything.

Dr550 - 1/31/2013 4:22:41 PM

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Do not remember the exact numbers, but a Fiat factory in Poland (5,500 workers) was building near the same amount of autos as the Fiat Italian factory (18,000 workers). Makes you think twice about unions demands.

mpls - 1/31/2013 5:46:49 PM

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How dare the workers demand more pay .. Only the banksters can decide and give !