Saying goodbye to Volkswagen was a hard decision for Martin Maatz. Accepting the car maker’s voluntary redundancy offer after 15 years at the company’s Dresden factory involved a lot of “hand wringing”, the 40-year-old tells the FT.
Getting a job at Volkswagen had been a “dream” for him. The German auto giant “was simply the brand with the biggest draw,” he recalls, before adding that its image has “suffered a lot in recent years”.
Maatz, who works on the assembly line and acts as a shop steward, is one of 35,000 German workers whose jobs will disappear by the end of the decade, under a sweeping cost-cutting plan.
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