Volkswagen plants saw workers go on warning strikes on Monday as tensions over changes to labor agreements and potential factory closures escalated.

Tens of thousands of Volkswagen workers will participate Monday in strikes at plants across Germany, labor union IG Metall said, marking the largest walkouts at the carmaker’s domestic operations since 2018.

Thousands of Volkswagen workers went on strike Monday in an escalating industrial dispute, with unions warning that the crisis-hit German auto giant is intent on making mass layoffs and closing factories.

Volkswagen is in deep crisis as thousands of workers at nine Volkswagen factories across Germany, including its EV-only factory, are going on strike this morning, bringing assembly lines to a grinding halt.

The labor union has promised "the toughest wage dispute Volkswagen has ever seen." VW has planned to close three plants amidst plunging profits.

The IG Metall trade union has called for strikes at nine of Volkswagen's 10 plants in Germany to begin at 9:30 am (0830 GMT). The walkout is scheduled to begin at the plant in the south-eastern city of Zwickau,

Volkswagen AG workers across Germany initiated walkouts on Monday after labor leaders and management failed to reach an agreement over how to cut costs at the carmaker’s namesake brand.

Volkswagen employees in Germany have started warning strikes over potential mass layoffs, wage cuts, and plant closures.

Volkwagen workers were called out on a nationwide warning strike on Monday against planned job cuts and factory closures.

Workers at German factories for carmaker Volkswagen are to go on strike from Monday over plans to cut thousands of jobs, union IG Metall said Sunday. After little progress in several rounds of talks between labour representatives and Volkswagen bosses,