• Melchior
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    19 hours ago

    They plan to cut those jobs until 2030, without firing workers due to business reasons. The idea is to have workers retire or quit the job and then not hire new workers. VW has 195,000 workers in Germany, so that is possible.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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      15 hours ago

      Which is how downsizing should happen if corporations take workers’ interest into account and there’s no imminent threat of bankruptcy. The union is there to force the corporation to do that.