Posts Tagged ‘German Union’
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Click above for high-res gallery of the 2009 Bentley BrooklandsBentleys and buckets of torque go hand-in-hand. Therefore, it might make some sense for the German-owned British luxury marque to consider one of the VW Group's big, powerful turbodiesels for one of its upcoming models. Not so fast, says......
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Following-up on last week's announcement that Volkswagen was looking at Alabama for a new manufacturing facility, the German automaker's management board is expected to make their final recommendation today. Following that announcement, Volkswagen's supervisory board, headed by former VW group CEO F......
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Audi metroproject quattro Concept.Buyers of the next generation of Volkswagen-developed small cars will have one more option box to tick when placing their order: all-wheel-drive. The new platform, dubbed PQ25, will find its way underneath a handful of new m......
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
The Volkwagen Lavida (or La Vida, perhaps) is VW's China-only sedan that will go into production this summer. The car will be built in China by Shanghai Volkswagen, and could get the Chinese produced 1.4-liter TSI engine as well, but is more likely to come with a 1.8- or 2.0-liter engine.As a testam......
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Monday, May 29th, 2006
Ron Gettelfinger, who was reelected to no one's surprise as president of the United Auto Workers (UAW) last month, will also be joining the DaimlerChrysler supervisory board as well. Gettelfinger is replacing UAW Vice President Nate Gooden who is stepping down from the board.In Germany, such boards ......
Tags: board member, company decisions, daimlerchrysler, duties, German Union, germany, IG Metall, nate gooden, ron gettelfinger, shareholders, supervisory board, supporting company, surprise, tradition, uaw, uaw president, united auto workers, usa today, vice president
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Friday, May 12th, 2006
Volkswagen is looking to lengthen their employee's work week, without any additional financial compensation, a cost-cutting move to designed to help stabilize the company's bottom line.But before labor sympathizers get out their sandwich boards and picket signs, it must be noted that the automaker i......
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Sunday, February 5th, 2006
German engineering union IG Metall will start "warning strikes" at DaimlerChrylser, Porsche and Bosch plants in southwestern Germany, beginning March 1. Such token job actions by German unions are often used as a bargaining lever with companies before launching full-blown strikes.IG Metall is curren......
Tags: bosch, daimlerchrysler, German Union, GermanUnion, IG Metall, IgMetall, porsche
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