It is a cinematic drama that is now taking place in the Volkswagen Group. In this respect, the setting had a certain symbolic power. Several hundred officials from the IG Metall union gathered this week in the large cinema hall of the “Astor Grand Cinema”, right in the center of the Lower Saxony state capital Hanover. The meeting was planned for a long time. It was intended to mark the start of the upcoming negotiations for a new collective agreement in the metal and electrical industries. But the crisis in the VW Group, which had broken out a few days before, gave the conference unexpected drama.
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