VW Employees in Slovakia Threaten to Strike Over Pay Increase
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Volkswagen AG, Europe’s biggest carmaker, is offering employees at its Bratislava plant half the pay increase that unions are demanding and may face a halt to production because of a threatened strike.
The factory, opened in 1991, is involved in production of models including the VW Touareg, Audi Q7 and Porsche Cayenne sport-utility vehicles and hasn’t suffered a strike yet. VW produced 210,400 cars at the plant in 2011. In the first half of this year it made 209,400, a jump of 122 percent from a year earlier.