The article I found is called GM, Ford Step Up Efforts to Reduce Costs in Europe. GM’s Opel subsidiary in Germany has become the largest European employer and wants employees to work longer without a raise. The Jaguar unit in the United Kingdom is planning to cut productions by 15,000 cars. Jaguar is being effected by the US dollars weakness against the British pound and the euro, which undercuts the profits for European companies that export mist of there products to the US. Opel wants to move its company out of Germany to lower wage regions because they have high labor cost. The want to extent their workweek from 35 hours a week to 40 hours a week and they want to freeze works pay. Mercedes Benz was thinking about giving their workers a 2.8% raise but didn’t do it instead they are making their workers work longer hours with no additional pay. The general workers union in the United Kingdom called the production cuts “a tragedy” but said that they have received assurances that......
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