Volkswagen workers on strike over proposed pay cuts and plant closures

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The two-hour stoppages included the company's base plant at Wolfsburg, where workers protested against a cost-cutting drive by the car maker's management which includes the threat of plant closures in Germany.

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00:00Volkswagen workers have launched rolling two-hour strikes at plants across Germany in resistance

00:07to pay cuts and factory closures.

00:10Euronews correspondent Liv Stroud reports from Wolfsburg at Germany's Volkswagen headquarters.

00:15The sound of whistles and cries ring out across Wolfsburg, home to Germany's Volkswagen headquarters.

00:21Tens of thousands of VW workers across Germany have joined warning strikes on Monday morning

00:26after the company and unions failed to reach an agreement.

00:30The company plans to close at least three plants slash tens of thousands of jobs and

00:36cut pay by 10%.

00:38It blames the crisis on the troubled economy, rising wages, a lack of raw materials and

00:45a slow transition to electric vehicles.

00:49With snap elections coming up in February and the car industry very much the backbone

00:53of the German economy, it seems more than likely that Germany is going to vote for a

00:58change in leadership.

01:00Liv Stroud in Wolfsburg for Euronews.

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