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Volkswagen CEO's Speech to Workers Drowned Out By Boos After He Says Company 'Isn't Operating in a Fantasy World' (www.latintimes.com)

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The carmaker has been in heated discussions with unions after announcing this fall that it would have to take drastic measures to cut costs

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[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

C-suite execs and board members should be required to work a couple weeks a year filing in for several of their lowest-paid workers. Maybe even staying with them so they see how their workers are forced to live.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

If that happens, they'll probably just restructure it so that they're the only members of the company, and everyone else under them is part of a new company wholly owned and operated by the original company.