The new Volkswagen works council chairman Daniela Cavallo has sharply criticized the CEO's planned absence from a company meeting.
"Herbert Diess prefers investors on Wall Street to its own workforce," wrote Cavallo in a statement on Tuesday evening.
This behavior is unprecedented in the history of the group and shows that Diess has neither empathy nor feeling for the situation of the workforce even in this crisis.
Wolfsburg - “This provocation shows us that Dr.
Diess still has no interest in constructive cooperation. "
It had previously become known that Diess had canceled the invitation to the next works meeting at the Wolfsburg headquarters on November 4th due to appointments in the USA.
There was initially no response from the company on Wednesday to the criticism of this lack.
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