8月25日周二，大众汽车管理层在德国沃尔夫斯堡总部与工人举行紧急会议，讨论包括可能裁员10万人及关闭多家德国工厂在内的大规模成本削减计划 1。首席执行官奥利弗·布鲁姆在德国总部面对超过1万名员工时呼吁大家团结应对公司困境，并表示包括裁员和工厂关闭在内的全面重组对公司未来至关重要 2。然而，他的讲话遭遇了嘘声和抗议，员工们举起标语并高喊口号：“我们的工作不是你们调整资产负债表的手段” 2。
布鲁姆警告称，公司目前处于“极度危急状态”，在欧洲每年产能过剩约50万辆，必须通过削减车型、降低产能和削减德国高成本来恢复竞争力 1。根据他的“2030目标愿景”计划，大众旨在将车型阵容削减一半，并将全球年产量目标从2018年的约1100万辆降至900万辆 1。尽管大众实现了3.8%的营业利润率，但管理层认为在工人此前已同意约5万人主要通过自愿离职方案裁员的基础上，还需再削减5万个就业岗位 1。目前，大众拥有近63万名员工 1。
大众监事会已于上月拒绝了第二轮成本削减提案，而持有大众20%投票权的下萨克森州也拒绝签署这些计划 1。此外，梅赛德斯-奔驰首席执行官奥拉·凯列纽斯指出，该公司在匈牙利和德国业务之间存在70%的成本差距 1。为推进沟通，大众将在本周结束前于沃尔夫斯堡、埃姆登、茨维考、不伦瑞克和汉诺威等地举行九场独立的劳资会议 1。
Volkswagen management is holding extraordinary meetings with workers this week, starting on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, to discuss massive cost-cutting plans that could result in up to 100,000 job losses and the possible closure of several German car factories 1. Chief Executive Oliver Blume stated that the company is in an "extremely critical state" 1. He faced boos and protests from more than 10,000 employees at the company's German headquarters on Tuesday as he urged them to pull together amid the restructuring 2. Workers held signs and chanted slogans, including "Our jobs are not your balance sheet adjustments," to oppose the measures 2. The company, which employs nearly 630,000 workers, had already seen employees agree to around 50,000 job cuts mainly through voluntary redundancy schemes, but management now believes a further 50,000 jobs must be eliminated 1.
Nine separate meetings are scheduled to take place, starting on Tuesday at the Wolfsburg headquarters, with subsequent talks at sites in Emden, Zwickau, Braunschweig, and Hanover before the end of the week 1. Blume warned that the automaker is currently over-producing around half a million vehicles in Europe annually and emphasized the need to cut models, reduce capacity, and lower high costs in Germany to restore competitiveness 1. His Target Vision 2030 plan aims to halve the company's model lineup and reduce the global production target from about 11 million vehicles in 2018 to 9 million a year 1. Despite achieving a solid 3.8% operating margin, the proposals have faced strong opposition from unions and the state of Lower Saxony 1. The supervisory board rejected the second round of cost-cutting proposals last month, and Lower Saxony, which holds 20% of the voting rights in Volkswagen, has refused to sign off on the plans 1. Meanwhile, Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius pointed to a 70% cost gap between the firm's Hungarian and German operations 1.
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