News Digest Item
19 Oct 2016

“Head of VW works council: We have to build batteries”

Frankfurter Allgemeine / Süddeutsche Zeitung

VW’s work council has made an agreement with management on future job cuts conditional on building a battery factory, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “The agreement could fall through. Especially if there is no promise by the company to enter batteries,” council head Bernd Osterloh told Süddeutsche Zeitung. He said battery production should make up for the jobs that will be lost in car-making.

Read the FAZ article in German here, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung report in German here

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