VW Group and unions disagree on plan to streamline the automaker
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大众汽车集团与工会就一项旨在提升运营效率的重组计划产生分歧。尽管该集团在欧洲本土的电动汽车销售表现良好，但在中国和北美市场面临高昂关税与份额下滑的困境，导致利润空间被压缩。监事会提出的重组方案未包含工厂关闭或裁员计划，但最终仍以12票反对、7票赞成的结果被否决。由于工会在大众集团拥有强大影响力，占据监事会半数席位，利润并非决策的唯一考量。此前，双方经过数月谈
Volkswagen Group is doing well with electric vehicle sales in its home region, but costly tariffs and eroding market share in China and North America have been hurting it badly. Europe's largest automaker, which also owns brands including Audi, Porsche, Skoda, and Lamborghini, has seen its profit margins evaporate, and yesterday the company's supervisory board was presented with a plan to ameliorate that. An expected call for factory closures and redundancies wasn't included—at least not in VW Group's public statement—but according to Reuters the measure failed anyway by a vote of 12-7.
Unlike most automakers, worker unions are extremely powerful at VW Group. Fully half of the 20 seats on the supervisory board are appointed by worker councils. Another two seats are spoken for thanks in part to the company's partial ownership by the German state of Lower Saxony—currently held by that state's minister of education and minister-president. So while profit has been important, it's not the only thing that matters to the decision-makers.
Over the years, there have been lengthy fights at any suggestion of redundancies. Lately, VW Group and its unions spent months in negotiations in 2024 before finally agreeing to a plan to cut 35,000 jobs by 2030.
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