IG Metall says a decision to put its wage demands last on a list of requests to employers federation, Gesamtmetall, is a tactic designed to apply sustained pressure.
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Hyundai this week started annual wage talks with its labour union, with demands including an end to overnight shifts.
Vehicle sales in China increased by 12.5% year on year in April. According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), 1.28m sedans, SUVs, MPVs and minivans were sold last month compared to 1.14m in April 2011. For the January-April period, deliveries rose 1.9% to 5.05m.
Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles (VECV) is planning to spend INR2.88bn (US$53m) at its Pithampur plant in Madhya Pradesh to expand and increase production capacity.
Well, that was unexpected. Normally, the last thing safe, conservative, can we even say staid, German politicians do is pitch head first into domestic wage negotiations, preferring to stay grandly above the fray until the dust settles.
Mahindra & Mahindra has resumed full production at its Nashik after a fire broke out at the plant's Scorpio multipurpose vehicle unit earlier this week. The company has since produced 200 units of the Scorpio and Xylo models.
Toyota Motor plans to boost supplies of its Prius hybrid in the US as demand exceeds the initial target of 220,000 vehicles for 2012.
Honda's US unit has won an appeal against a US$10,000 small claims court award to Civic hybrid owner Heather Peters.
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The past few days have seen all sorts of rumours and supposed leaks from plant managers, union officials and senior executives at Opel and PSA. What should we believe?
Most popular news article this week: an interview with Nady Boules, director of General Motors' electrical and control integration research skunkworks. He told how the automaker sees the pathway, timeframe and costs in moving through semi- to fully autonomous driving - the automaker has begun road testing prototype Cadillacs capable of semi-autonomous driving. GM calls the system 'Super Cruise'.
Germany's finance minister has conceded the country can afford "some wage increases" as more than half a million metalworkers continued their huge warning strikes this week.
Ford has started volume production of EcoBoost engines at its new factory in Craiova, Romania.
Volkswagen Group said global deliveries rose 6 percent in April and 8.9 percent in the first four months, but warned that it expects growth to slow down for the rest of the year due to the European market slump.
Volkswagen Group said global deliveries rose 6 percent in April and 8.9 percent in the first four months, but warned that it expects growth to slow down for the rest of the year due to the European market slump. U.S.
Volkswagen Group said global deliveries rose 6 percent in April and 8.9 percent in the first four months, but warned that it expects growth to slow down for the rest of the year due to the European market slump.
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