Volkswagen Workers Step up Strikes to Fight German Plant Closures

Volkswagen Workers Step up Strikes to Fight German Plant Closures
Employees of Volkswagen AG march for higher wages during a "warning strike" of Germany's IG Metall metalworkers' union, in Osnabrueck, Germany, on Nov. 6, 2024. Teresa Kroeger/Reuters
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Volkswagen workers will go on extended strikes on Monday, stepping up a bitter dispute with management over layoffs and what would be the first factory closures on German soil for Europe’s largest carmaker, a union statement said on Thursday.

The IG Metall union said workers would down tools for four hours at nine different sites in so-called “warning” strikes across the country, twice as long as the first round of industrial action at the start of December.