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BRAZIL: Now Volkswagen offers two years' salary to prise workers out of its factories - report

02 Oct 2003

Source: just-auto.com editorial team

Trying to avoid a strike in Brazil, Volkswagen AG is offering some 2,000 workers threatened with layoffs two years' salary to voluntarily leave their jobs, Dow Jones reported.

Workers, who are fighting Volkswagen's plan to dissolve a total of nearly 4, 000 jobs at its Taubate and Sao Bernardo do Campo plants near Sao Paulo, will vote on the offer on Friday, the report said.

Noting that the average monthly salary of a Volkswagen worker in Brazil is 1,200 reals (about $US400), Dow Jones said Volkswagen is offering to pay up to 1,923 workers 20 months' salary plus 40% of their salaries for each year worked for the company.

Volkswagen also offered the workers, who were supposed to leave their jobs on Wednesday, the option of taking a month paid leave until November 11 to consider entering a transition programme that would help them find work somewhere else, the report added.

Dow Jones noted that the German car maker, one of the top three in Brazil's $US20 billion-a-year automotive sector, announced in August that it would trim local payrolls by 16% by moving 3,933 workers into transition programmes. Technically, the workers would stay on the payroll until current labour contracts expire, in February 2004 at Taubate, and in November 2006 at Sao Bernardo do Campo, the news agency added.

Dow Jones added that the job cuts were postponed from September 1, because of resistance from the powerful metalworkers union that represents VW workers, and that Wednesday's compromise offer is the latest move in VW's struggle to trim payrolls and avoid a strike.

Volkswagen's plants in Brazil are operating at little more than half capacity after a long-running slump in car sales worsened this year, Dow Jones said.

USA: DaimlerChrysler and union agree 5,000 job cuts programme - paper

01 Oct 2003

Source: just-auto.com editorial team

Article Summary:

DaimlerChrysler and the United Auto Workers have agreed on a special retirement programme designed to cut up to 5,000 of the Chrysler Group's 12,000 skilled trades workers, the Detroit News reported on Wednesday, citing union documents and company sources.

BELGIUM (updated 12:50BST): Ford Europe cuts 3000 jobs, axes Genk Focus production plans - report

01 Oct 2003

Source: just-auto.com editorial team

Article Summary:

Ford of Europe said on Wednesday it was scrapping plans to produce the next generation Focus at its Genk plant in Belgium and reducing Mondeo production from three to two shifts, both actions cutting a total of 3,000 jobs, as it seeks to slash costs and return to profits, according to Reuters reports and a Ford statement.

GERMANY: Ford plans more job cuts - reports

30 Sep 2003

Source: just-auto.com editorial team

Article Summary:

Ford's German unit plans to cut a further 1,700 jobs by the end of this year, Reuters reported, citing a German newspaper published on Tuesday. The Reuters report, citing an article due to appear in Tuesday's edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, said the workforce will be reduced through retirement and layoffs that will principally hit Ford-Werke AG's Cologne operations.

POLAND: Daewoo-FSO to lay off up to 1,480 - report

30 Sep 2003

Source: just-auto.com editorial team

Article Summary:

Up to 1,480 people will be laid off their jobs at Daewoo-FSO Motor Polska, shareholders decided on Monday, as part of an attempt to save the troubled company from bankruptcy and open the way for an investor to help restructure it, Associated Press (AP) reported.

USA: Analysts say UAW-sanctioned job cuts may still not close Detroit's productivity gap - report

26 Sep 2003

Source: just-auto.com editorial team

Article Summary:

The Big Three automakers and their top two suppliers could cut up to 50,000 jobs over the next four years under tentative union contracts reached last week and still fail to close the competitive gap with Asian and European car makers, motor industry analysts have told the Reuters news agency.

GERMANY: Mercedes-Benz to cut production at largest plant - report

25 Sep 2003

Source: just-auto.com editorial team

Article Summary:

DaimlerChrysler's Mercedes-Benz unit plans to cut production at its biggest German plant due to the tough market, according to a workers' magazine obtained by Reuters on Wednesday. Citing the September edition of the Brennpunkt magazine, Reuters reported that the factory's management told the workers council at Mercedes' Sindelfingen plant that changed market conditions would force lower production levels and that would have an impact on some workers with short-term contracts.

USA: UAW labour pact will see General Motors close Baltimore plant - report

23 Sep 2003

Source: just-auto.com editorial team

Article Summary:

General Motors' 68-year-old Baltimore, Maryland, assembly plant is the only major GM factory earmarked for closing as part of the car maker's tentative new agreement with the United Auto Workers, union local presidents were told by UAW bosses, Associated Press (AP) reported. According to AP, the local officers were in Detroit on Sunday to hear highlights of the proposed four-year labour pacts announced last Thursday with GM, the last of the ‘Big Three’ United States car makers to reach an agreement, and with supplier Delphi Corporation.

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USA: General Motors and Ford get union approval to axe eight plants - report

22 Sep 2003

Source: just-auto.com editorial team

Article Summary:

General Motors and Ford have won permission from the United Auto Workers union to close three assembly plants and to sell or close five other facilities under terms of the four-year contract agreement struck last week, Monday's Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.

GERMANY: China faces overcapacity within two years - KPMG

18 Sep 2003

Source: just-auto.com editorial team

Article Summary:

Reuters reports that consultants KPMG have warned that the booming Chinese car market will face major overcapacity problems within two years. The Chinese auto industry is currently seeing a huge wave of investment in vehicle production capacity and in its components industry. However, the warning suggests that future profits may not be as high as investors hope due to problems of oversupply.

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