Nearly 66,000 Volkswagen (VWAGY) workers are staging walkouts at German factories in protest of the automaker's cost-cutting and plant closure plans amidst wage disputes with the IG Metall union. Brad Smith and Madison Mills report more on the labor strike hitting nine of Germany's ten Volkswagen plants.

Thousands of Volkswagen workers went on strike on Monday with unions warning that the carmaker is intent on making mass layoffs and closing factories.

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

Workers at nine of Volkswagen's care and component factories in Germany were on strike Monday amid a dispute over labor contract changes and factory closings.

Workers at Volkswagen plants across Germany walked off the job in waves on Monday for temporary work stoppages, marking the start of nationwide strikes against the German auto giant. About 66,000 VW employees - more than half of VW's factory workforce in Germany - joined the strikes,

BERLIN, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) workers will go on warning strikes on Monday at plants across Germany, labour union IG Metall said, marking the first large-scale walkouts at Volkswagen's domestic operations since 2018.

You look at VW and I'm looking at the history of strikes there. They're about to go on strike. The last major walkout they had was 2018 with 50,006 factories. Volkswagen have set fire to a collective agreement is what I'd mittal the union are saying.

Beginning Monday morning, workers at nine plants launched warning strikes, which are usually short walk-outs lasting a few hours a day, halting production as part of the continuing dispute.