The VW board is planning to terminate several collective agreements, which will lead to a confrontation with the employee side.
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Volkswagen and the employee representatives are in a review discussion regarding compliance with the future collective agreement of 2024.
According to IG Metall and the works council, Volkswagen wants to terminate a number of collective agreements. The VW board announced this at a meeting in Hanover, the employee side said. VW wants to submit the termination notices on Wednesday. Exactly which agreements were affected remained unclear at first.
According to employee representatives, the first consequences could not occur until January 2027 at the earliest. However, possible dismissals would have no impact on the future collective agreement from 2024 and the job security agreed therein until the end of 2030.
On Wednesday, representatives from Volkswagen, IG Metall and the works council will meet in Hanover for a so-called review meeting. The employees who originally scheduled the conversation are demanding clarity as to whether and how VW will comply with the promises made in the 2024 collective agreement. They see these agreements at risk in view of the significantly tightened austerity plans. In return, management wants to explain why, in its view, the savings agreed at the time are no longer sufficient.
According to dpa information from company circles, Volkswagen prepared a termination of collective agreements before the conversation. This also applies to the collective collective agreement, which contains numerous basic regulations for the more than 100,000 VW employees in Germany. In total, the VW in-house tariff consists of 13 individual contracts.
IG Metall and the works council announce their resistance. “This is a bad foul on the workforce and another shameless attempt to reach into the employees’ wallets,” said Lower Saxony IG Metall boss Thorsten Gröger. We won't accept that. VW works council boss Daniela Cavallo expected a heated argument.
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