Trouble at mill... Vw on the rocks

[SRGTD]

In the business section of the BBC News website today;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje9kv3q94po

Key points from the article;

• Deal reached with unions to avoid immediate German plant closures and the previously reported 10k compulsory redundancies.
• 35,000 job cuts in a ‘socially responsible manner’ (e.g. to be found by other means such as early retirement) by 2030.
• Deal will see reduction in capacity across manufacturing plants (could this mean longer lead times for those ordering a new car?).
• Some production likely to be moved to Mexico.
• Previously agreed 5% wage increase to be suspended in 2025 and 2026.
• Number of apprenticeships offered each year to be cut from 1,400 to 600.

[fredgroves]

Production at VW's Wolfsburg plant, its biggest, will be cut to two assembly lines from four currently while production of the Golf and the Golf Variant will be shifted to VW's plant in Puebla, Mexico, from 2027

[joe6]

production of the Golf and the Golf Variant will be shifted to VW's plant in Puebla, Mexico, from 2027

So shifting the CO2 emissions from Europe to South America and claiming how good the EU is in reducing them while creating more through shipping vehicles back to Europe?

[fredgroves]

I was thinking more of the shoddy quality shift we saw with the beetle and the camper..

[fredgroves]

And the crap keeps coming:

Volkswagen Group's software subsidiary Cariad exposed sensitive data of 800,000 EV owners through a misconfigured Amazon cloud storage system. The breach revealed vehicle locations, contact details, and addresses across multiple European countries, affecting various VW brands. The issue was fixed after ethical hackers reported it.

Thats basically all of the telemetry data for connected VW customers - owner details, locations etc etc

Nice.

Its caused a bit of a privacy meltdown in privacy sensitive Germany apparently.