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What’s behind Germany’s VW worker strike

What’s behind Germany’s VW worker strike

Update: 2024-12-02
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From the BBC World Service: Thousands of workers at Volkswagen’s German factories are staging walkouts as the carmaker faces major financial woes. VW has floated wage cuts of 10%, thousands of job cuts and plant closures, but isn’t the only German automaker facing headwinds. And later on today’s show, Belfast shipbuilder Harland & Wolff — which famously (and infamously) made the Titanic — faces bankruptcy for a second time.

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What’s behind Germany’s VW worker strike

What’s behind Germany’s VW worker strike

Marketplace / David Brancaccio and Leanna Byrne