VW cancels Dresden plant meeting as crisis talks continue
dpaDresdenAn extraordinary works meeting planned for Volkswagen’s site in the eastern German city of Dresden will not go ahead, with the works council, local management and the gro...
Volkswagen has cancelled an extraordinary works meeting at its Dresden plant, as talks surrounding the crisis continue. The decision was made jointly by the works council, local management, and the group's board in Wolfsburg. Works council spokesman Heiko Lossie stated that the cancellation was an indication of the "pleasing circumstance" that there is currently no urgent need to inform the workforce at the Gläserne Manufaktur, or Transparent Factory manufacturing site.
Despite VW having no production at its Dresden site since the end of last year, after a 24-year run of series production, the 230 employees at the site were assured that their jobs would be retained for the time being. The site, located centrally in Dresden, is currently being transformed into an innovation campus in collaboration with the Dresden University of Technology.
The Gläserne Manufaktur, once seen as a prestige project for VW, opened in 2001 with the production of the Phaeton luxury model. In a bid to address financial difficulties, VW's management board began a tour of its sites on Tuesday, with the announcement of a tightened cost-cutting programme which threatened tens of thousands of jobs and four German sites at Europe's largest carmaker.
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