Another 10,000 job cuts at Volkswagen?
Rumors brought to light by German newsmagazine Der Spiegel suggest that Volkswagen's job cuts at its western Germany factories may eventually total 30,000, 50 percent more than the 20,000 target currently on the table. Apparently, the cuts would be necessary to increase production efficiency for the next-generation Golf at the Wolfsburg plant. As with the current round of job reductions, the additional cut would be accomplished via early retirement and voluntary termination programs. (Under an agreement with local governments in Germany, the company cannot impose involuntary layoffs before 2012.)
VW's Wolfsburg employees had hoped that the new Scirocco would be built there, only to learn that production is planned for a more efficient plant in Portugal.
[Source: Quattroruote]
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Scott Eaton 6:56PM (6/19/2006)
Why don't they just build in China and cut out the middleman? :-
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ebm14 7:15PM (6/19/2006)
It is a real shame that a German company would do less for its people. The Scirocco was orginally made by Germans and it also represents one of VW's most popular cars. It is worse to still here that the Bettle is still made in Mexico with low production numbers. Hitler would have been very angry to see what is being done to his company even thought I still hate the man.
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selihcra 8:26PM (6/19/2006)
Why all auto makers love to cut jobs by 30,000 instead of little by little? To scare people?
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Sean 10:03PM (6/19/2006)
So the Scirocco is slated to be built at a *more efficient* plant in *Portugal*?
The Germans, the inventors of efficiency, must be slipping...
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Ted K 10:58AM (6/20/2006)
The whole company sucks.
Just kill it already.
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iQuack 12:39AM (6/21/2006)
VW hasn't produced an interesting car since the first Rabbit in 1975--and that design was copied from the original Mini Cooper (and early Hondas which also copied the Mini Cooper but did a better job of it).
If I were car shopping now, I wouldn't go to a VW dealer at all because there's nothing at a VW store worth looking at.
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me 8:24AM (6/21/2006)
Ted K, you suck! Why don't you kill yourself?
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Frank 3:53PM (7/22/2006)
no inovation since long - i drove a golf II for over 480.000 km without problems... bought a audi a4-motor died with 120.000 km- scirocco comes too late. my decision was never that easy as today...
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