Germany: Volkswagen wants to use its subsidiary company Auto 5000 as an example during negotiations with IG-Metall

To cleanse his mark VW, the German car manufacturer Volkswagen wishes to extend to its West German factories the “5000X5000"model , already used in its subsidiary company Auto 5000 GMBH. In this factory, employees work longer and are paid less than their colleagues of VW. (Ref. 06552)
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The model “Auto 5000” is not “a copy”, which can be applied strictly, but “all of Volkswagen can take lessons from Auto 5000”, said Horst Neumann, HR manager of Volkswagen, according to Reuters, before adding: “the successes of VW’subsidiary company s must “ play an important role “during the negotiations on the next VW collective agreement. In the subsidiary company Auto 5000, which produces the Touran since 2002 in Wolfsbourg, the 3800 or so employees earn 2556 Euros (5000 marks) per month,

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