It increasingly seems that the global chip shortage will continue to cast a considerable shadow over the production of many car manufacturers this year. Now Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess expresses his concerns about this.
The consensus is that due to the chip shortage, 2022 will also be a difficult year for car production. At the beginning of this year, the American research agency AutoForecast Solutions warned that the shortage will continue to grip the car industry this year. Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess speaks to his employees on Wednesday and warns that this also applies to his group: “Supply is improving, but even in 2022 we will not be able to build all the cars we could sell,” he said. Automotive News on. “We do foresee further improvement in production capacity in the second half of the year.”
Diess has a difficult message for the employees in particular at the Wolfsburg factory, the home of Volkswagen. The CEO states that that factory in particular has been and will be hit hard by the chip shortage and that adjustment of production is inevitable, also in the medium term. Volkswagen previously clashed with the unions about this. Night shifts must be scrapped, which means that the possibility for employees to work those better-paid shifts also expires. Daniela Cavallo, the chairman of the workers’ union, therefore advocates that Volkswagen come with financial compensation for the affected employees. About 5,000 workers would be affected.
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