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Defend every job at VW!
3+ hour, 20+ min ago (1159+ words) Volkswagen is preparing the next round of mass job cuts. Plants in Emden and Zwickau, the commercial vehicle plant in Hanover and the Audi plant in Neckarsulm face closure. All together, 40, 000 people work at these plants. According to a report…...
Bosch to eliminate 1, 400 jobs in T'rkiye
11+ hour, 22+ min ago (454+ words) While Bosch T'rkiye posted net sales of "5. 5 billion in 2024a 25 percent increase over the previous yearthe company simultaneously notified the Ministry of Labor of its plan to eliminate 1, 400 jobs at its Bursa plant. Under the German industrial giant's plan, 1, 150 production workers…...
GM hits Factory Zero workers with another layoff as UAW maintains silence over escalating job cuts
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (915+ words) General Motors has again idled its flagship electric vehicle plant in Detroit, temporarily laying off the 1, 300 workers on the last shift left running at the factory. Factory Zero stopped production on March 16 and is not expected to restart until April…...
GM workers look to fight layoffs at Factory Zero in Detroit
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (1107+ words) Autoworkers: Take up the fight against layoffs! Fill out the form at the end of this articleto speak out against layoffs and learn more about joining the Autoworkers Rank-and-File Committee. In recent days, Factory Zero workers'many facing permanent layoffs'have written…...
1, 200 autoworkers in Canada lose their jobs as GM ends third shift at Oshawa Assembly Plant
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (303+ words) In "re-balancing" operations at its Oshawa plant over the remaining two shifts, GM will apply seniority rules. A small number of higher-seniority members from the third shift will be bumped to the remaining shifts, while lower-seniority members across all three…...
Workers at BYD's Xi'an plant in China strike over poverty wages
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (519+ words) Meanwhile, BYD founder, chairman and CEO Wang Chuanfu commands an estimated personal fortune of $28. 5 billion, according to Forbes last year. A single BYD factory worker earning 2, 000 yuan per month would have to work for more than 8. 2 million years to accumulate…...
Stellantis and its European Opel car plants'closure by installments
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (711+ words) Stellantis is responding to declining sales figures with attacks on its production workers. At the Opel plant in Eisenach, where the Grandland SUV is built, the assembly lines came to a standstill again two weeks ago. For the second time…...
Mass opposition from Nexteer auto parts workers to sellout contract pushed by UAW bureaucracy
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1122+ words) Workers were blunt in their anger. A veteran Nexteer employee with three decades on the job tied the contract's failures to the broader decay of living standards and the widening gulf between workers and the corporate elite. "Health care costs…...
IG Metall union suffers losses in works council elections
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (967+ words) The IG Metall union has suffered losses in many car plants in works council elections that began at the start of March. Even though it still commands a majority in the large plants, the dominance of the trade union apparatus…...
VW Group increases job cuts to 50, 000 to boost profits
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (847+ words) Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume presented the business figures for the past year at the corporation's annual press conference on Tuesday and announced an intensification of the automaker's ongoing jobs massacre. The chair of the general and group works council…...