Volkswagen AG Chief Executive Officer Matthias Mueller sought to win over workers to restructuring measures aimed at lifting margins at the embattled German carmakers namesake brand and helping weather the emissions-cheating scandal.
After nearly six months of crisis and recent revelations that senior managers missed warning signs, workers are fighting to avoid footing the bill. That put Herbert Diess, the chief of the VW brand and the main driver of cost-cutting measures, in the hot seat as some 20,000 employees gathered Tuesday at Volkswagens main plant in Wolfsburg, Germany.
Matthias Mueller addresses workers at the VW headquarters on March 8.
Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
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