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 Oct 19
Volkswagen apparently wants to freeze salaries: Volkswagen is intensifying its cost-cutting measures. According to consistent reports, salaries are to be frozen ...
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Volkswagen apparently wants to freeze salaries
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 Oct 19
VW plans salary freeze until 2030: Union demands five percent wage increase: Volkswagen is apparently planning a worldwide wage freeze until 2030 ...
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VW plans salary freeze until 2030: Union demands five percent wage ...
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 Oct 12
Strike in Sugenheim: Why the Staedtler workforce is taking to the streets: Although the 80 employees are to be transferred to Nuremberg following the announced ...
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Strike in Sugenheim: Why the Staedtler workforce is taking to the streets
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Süddeutsche Zeitung
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 Oct 13
IG Metall Chairwoman Christiane Benner: "The car executives want to keep sleeping"
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IG Metall Chairwoman Christiane Benner:
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BR24 Oct 12
Podcast: Am I too expensive?: IG Metall wants higher wages, companies complain about excessively high costs. Is labor in Germany really too expensive? ...
ardsounds.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:835e8a289aa7d988/
Podcast: Am I too expensive?
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 Oct 13
IG Metall negotiator Gröger threatens industrial action: Collective agreements terminated - | Strike from January? Thorsten Gröger says: IG Metall is prepared ...
op-online.de/wirtschaft/ig-metall-verhandler-groeger-droht-mit-arbeitskampf-zr-94538129.html
IG Metall negotiator Gröger threatens industrial action
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 Oct 02
Volkswagen: Crash: VW terminates numerous collective bargaining agreements and plans to cut 50,000 jobs worldwide. IG Metall criticizes the approach as ...
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Volkswagen: Crash
Key FactsVolkswagen Cancels Collective Agreements, Plans Job Cuts
Oct 2, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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  • According to the company, the terminated provisions are to be adjusted in response to cost pressures.

  • At a 2024 meeting on the future collective agreement, Gröger said the planned terminations went unmentioned although media were already reporting.

  • Volkswagen’s board plans roughly 50,000 further global job cuts; about half could affect German sites, beyond previously announced reductions.

  • The future of plants in Emden, Hannover and Zwickau, and Audi’s Neckarsulm site, remains unresolved beyond 2031 to 2034.
    • The move is 'disrespectful toward its own employees,' he told Deutschlandfunk. At the same time, it would be 'irresponsible toward the company itself' to spark a conflict that VW cannot afford.
    — Thorsten Gröger, IG Metall district leader, in an interview with Deutschlandfunk
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 Oct 02
Union ready for conflict: IG Metall accuses VW management of disrespect: Volkswagen recently terminated a large portion of its collective bargaining agreements ...
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Union ready for conflict: IG Metall accuses VW management of disrespect
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 Sep 30
First consequences from 2027: Volkswagen terminates almost all collective bargaining agreements
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First consequences from 2027: Volkswagen terminates almost all collective ...
Key FactsVolkswagen Terminates Most Collective Agreements
Sep 30, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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  • Volkswagen’s company-wide collective agreement comprises 13 contracts; the framework agreement covers basic conditions for more than 100,000 employees.

  • The 2024 future agreement is excluded, while its employment guarantee runs through the end of 2030.

  • The union and works council say employees could feel initial effects from January 2027; strikes would be possible after the peace obligation ends.

  • The board plans to cut 50,000 more jobs worldwide; about half could affect German sites.
    • This is a dirty foul on the workforce and, once again, a shameless attempt to reach into the employees' pockets.
    — Thorsten Gröger, IG Metall regional chief for Lower Saxony, commenting on VW's move to terminate tariff agreements and the pressure on workers.
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tz Oct 01
“Foul play”: Volkswagen terminates several collective bargaining agreements: 35-hour week, vacation, special payments: The board wants to renegotiate these ...
tz.de/wirtschaft/uebles-foul-volkswagen-kuendigt-mehrere-tarifvertraege-zr-94519651.html
“Foul play”: Volkswagen terminates several collective bargaining ...
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Volkswagen terminates ten collective bargaining agreements - | important protective regulations affected | LUDWIGSBURG24
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Volkswagen terminates ten collective bargaining agreements - | important ...
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Donaukurier
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 Sep 22
After IG Metall's Car Day: What happens next?: IG Metall's Car Day brought thousands of employees in Bavaria to the streets - | mainly at Audi in ...
donaukurier.de/ratgeber/auto-verkehr/nach-dem-autotag-der-ig-metall-so-geht-es-jetzt-weiter-22044905
After IG Metall's Car Day: What happens next?
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 Sep 04
Historic corporate restructuring: Who won the power struggle at Volkswagen?: Volkswagen's board of directors is pushing through the most massive cost-cutting ...
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Historic corporate restructuring: Who won the power struggle at ...
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 Aug 06
Agreement with IG Metall: Volkswagen's development subsidiary IAV to cut 2,000 jobs in Germany
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Agreement with IG Metall: Volkswagen's development subsidiary IAV to ...
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Braunschweiger Zeitung
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 Mar 15
OpinionA warning shot for the powerful IG Metall at Volkswagen: Commentary on the Volkswagen plant
braunschweiger-zeitung.de/wirtschaft/article411453530/ein-warnschuss-fuer-die-maechtige-ig-metall-bei-volkswagen.html
A warning shot for the powerful IG Metall at Volkswagen
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 Feb 05
Membership decline at IG Metall Wolfsburg - | Union warns of deindustrialization: Despite losses, IG Metall Wolfsburg remains the largest branch in Germany in ...
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Membership decline at IG Metall Wolfsburg - | Union warns of ...
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 Nov 13 25
IG Metall Braunschweig: List for 2026 Works Council Election Finalized: IG Metall Braunschweig has nominated its candidates for the upcoming works council ...
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IG Metall Braunschweig: List for 2026 Works Council Election Finalized
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 Nov 06 25
GFT vs. IG Metall: New union wants a say at Volkswagen: The Union for Transformation in Industry (GFT) is striving for changes at Volkswagen and wants to break ...
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GFT vs. IG Metall: New union wants a say at Volkswagen
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