Volkswagen is cancelling a no-layoffs pledge and won't rule out closing plants in Germany
Germany's Volkswagen says auto industry headwinds mean it can't rule out plant closings in its home country - and is dropping a longstanding job protection pledge in force since 1994 that would have barred layoffs through 2029. “The European automotive in...
Takes a producer and a consumer to fuck shit up here.
The producer doing everything possible promote their brand to 0.3% of the population.
The consumer rightly doesn’t give a fuck about them (or apparently their own countrymen) anymore.
Maybe they should try laying off everyone not directly responsible for designing and building cars and see what happens.
You know they won’t, you know they’ll slowly downsize the line while protecting the desk jobs and leeches as long as possible.