Fogler's Archive for “March 2007f 2007”

Short Work Week at Volkswagen

Late last fall Business Week reported that workers in the Volkswagen factories in Germany will now be working a 33 hour work week.
Volkswagen is like a state unto itself, where the laws of economics don’t apply. In Volkswagen land, otherwise known as Wolfsburg, Germany, a new labor agreement signed Oct. 6 by management and unions [...]