According to foreign media reports, a joint position paper seen by the media on October 14 showed that four German states with Volkswagen operations hope to work together to ensure that the troubled automaker does not close any A factory located in Germany.
, Relevant departments in Lower Saxony, Saxony, Hesse and Berlin in Germany stated that their primary goal is to fully protect all Volkswagen sites.
, “This means there will be no competition between factories,” the states said in a document signed on October 10.
The document also shows: “The economic departments of the German federal states will unite and cooperate closely.
“, Photo source: Volkswagen, these four German states also oppose mass layoffs at the expense of employees, and said that renewed long-term job security contracts should ensure positions and retain professional technicians.
Volkswagen has been in trouble for some time, and to an increasing extent, as news of the factory closure (the first time in Germany) has brought it into conflict with the very influential IG Metall union in Germany.
IG Metall represents Volkswagen’s 130,000 employees in Germany and is negotiating a new labor agreement with Volkswagen.
The group last month terminated an agreement dating from the mid-1990s that would have guaranteed employment at the group’s six factories in western Germany.
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