At the request of the future president of the IG Metall union, Berthold Huber, the two leaders of VW and Porsche's European works councils met on October 30, 2007, at the headquarters of IG Metall in Frankfurt to try and settle their conflict about the joint management rules within the future Porsche Automobil Holding SE (see our article No. 70885). On October 31, 2007, the employees of Volkswagen's six western factories should down tools for an hour to enable the WC to explain them this conflict's stakes. (Ref. 070904)
For weeks, Bernd Osterloh, chair of VW’s EWC, has been blaming Porsche’s management and works council for signing an agreement on staff representation in the future Porsche Holding which does not take into account the balance between the two companies’ workforces. Thus, in the end, the supervisory board of the future European company (which will head over Porsche and the 31% Porsche holds at VW) will have six staff representatives – 3 for Porsche and 3 for Volkswagen – whereas VW employs 324.0
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