The fourth round of negotiations at Volkswagen ended on Monday without a result at the company’s headquarters in Wolfsburg. To mark the occasion, the IG Metall union launched a second wave of warning strikes involving 68,000 employees at nine of the group’s 10 German plants. The management negotiator, Arne Meiswinkel (HR director), said on Monday evening, after around seven hours of talks, that the two parties were “still a long way from a viable solution”, although he acknowledged that constru
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