Volkswagen’s works council said it would press on with efforts to set up labor representation at the automaker’s U.S plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee after workers there voted against any such step involving the United Auto Workers union (UAW).
Employees at the plant, in a region traditionally hostile to organized labor, on Friday opted to reject representation by the union, whose membership has plummeted 75 percent since 1979 and now stands at just under 400,000.
The Peugeot family, the largest shareholder in PSA/Peugeot-Citroen, will meet on Monday to decide whether to give its blessing to two deals aimed at securing the French carmaker’s future, a source close to the matter said.The family’s consent is needed so PSA can announce, alongside 2013 results on Wednesday, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on a recapitalization deal under which the French state and Chinese partner Dongfeng Motor will both take direct stakes in the group.
Volkswagen has launched the battery-electric version of the Golf, the e-Golf, in Germany with immediate availability. In launching the new e-Golf, Volkswagen is bringing the most successful European car ever onto the market as a full production electric vehicle.
With the market for diesel vehicles expanding rapidly in North America, Bosch is developing a highly-qualified independent repair network of shops equipped to diagnose and service these vehicles.
US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau announced that Interior will offer more than 40 million acres for oil and gas exploration and development in the Gulf of Mexico in March lease sales.
