Siemens German Workers to Have Longer Week
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Industrial group Siemens AG and Germany's biggest industrial union announced a deal Tuesday that will result in a longer working week for 8,000 employees at the company's sales and repair branches in Germany.
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Germany will be the hardest hit, the paper said, with 6,000 workers facing redundancy at it's Adam Opel business.
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German rail workers extended strikes over pay on Tuesday, causing what operator Deutsche Bahn described as "massive disruptions" for millions of morning rush hour commuters across the country.
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German carmaker Adam Opel AG told a group representing workers that it wanted to cut wages and benefits and change working hour arrangements, employee representatives said Wednesday.
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Europe&#39;s biggest carmaker said 30,000 jobs could be cut in Germany if unions do not agree to cost-cutting plans. Volkswagen is pushing for a wage freeze and more flexibility in working hours to counteract falling sales.
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German rail workers extended strikes over pay on Tuesday, causing what operator Deutsche Bahn said were "massive" disruptions for early morning commuters in big cities including Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich.
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Whether they&#39;ve been ready for months or are frantically working overtime to catch up, employers of all stripes have until Monday to conform to new labor regulations.
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Troubled German car maker Opel, a unit of General Motors, is planning to extend the working week for employees from 35 to 40 hours without any corresponding rise in pay, the mass-circulation daily Bild reported.
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The Bruins will reduce their staff work week to three days to compensate for the decreasing work load due to the ongoing lockout.
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DÃSSELDORF, GERMANY - Siemens AG plans to hire an additional 1,000 software engineers in India this year in an ongoing effort to expand its research and development (R&D) activities in growth markets.
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HANOVER - Management at Volkswagen and union leaders were locked in tough wage talks Tuesday as thousands of workers at Europe&#39;s largest car maker staged more warning strikes.
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FRANKFURT The terms were stark: Work five more hours a week - without pay - in exchange for not moving thousands of jobs to Hungary.
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Workers at a Siemens AG phone systems plant have agreed to a 3-percent hourly pay cut and other concessions to keep 1,100 jobs in Germany that otherwise might have been shifted to lower-cost countries, the ...
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BOCHUM, Germany  - Workers at a General Motors  plant in Bochum, Germany, swallowed their anger over job cuts  and voted on Wednesday to end a seven-day stoppage that has  disrupted output at three other GM factories.
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Workers at an Adam Opel AG plant in Germany whose stoppage in protest at threatened job cuts has forced two other factories to a halt planned to decide Wednesday whether to end their walkout.
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Two of Europe's biggest car-makers, Volkswagen and Opel, will this week open the latest front in German industry's battle to slash costs, secure longer working hours and impose more flexible conditions -- or ...
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FRANKFURT : Labour conflict looks set to boil over in the German automobile sector in the coming weeks as car makers such as Volkswagen and Opel seek to impose rigorous belt-tightening measures as an answer to chronically weak demand.