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Europe’s largest automaker, Volkswagen, is to shed 50,000 jobs by the end of the decade, as it faces falling sales in China and North America and punitive US tariffs imposed by Donald Trump.

The 10-brand group, whose luxury subsidiaries Porsche and Audi are also under pressure, said the jobs would go in Germany, affecting the entire group, as part of a restructuring drive in light of the darkening global business climate.

The group had already struck a deal with German trade unions at the end of 2024 to slash 35,000 jobs by 2030, in part by natural attrition through retirement and other staff departures.

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[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

VW makes cars with blinding LED headlights that are obviously unsafe, and in general just very assholish

so, fuck them, and everybody responsible for that can fucking die and the world would be a better place.

[–] Asetru@feddit.org 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's the company that screwed the earth by deliberately cheating on emission tests, fucked over employees by declaring they didn't have money for them before spontaneously finding 6 billion euros when it was time to determine management bonuses (before now declaring they want to fire 50k people), built military cars for the Nazis using forced labourers and concentration camp inmates when they promised they'd build private, civilian cars (which led to hundreds of thousands of people to save money for a product that didn't exist), ratted out its employees to the Brazilian dictatorship that then promptly started torturing them, is now benefitting from the Uyghur mistreatment in Xinjiang and has a CEO that recently used a Nazi slogan as a pun.

And you're complaining that they use the same dumb headlights as all other companies.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

I don't need to complain about everything all of the time. that would be annoying and nobody would listen.