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Archive for September, 2006

Nurnberg top after Bayern shock (TeamTalk via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Sport)

Saturday, September 30th, 2006
Nurnberg are back on top of the Bundesliga for 24 hours at least after Bayern Munich were shocked 1-0 by Wolfsburg on Saturday.A 36th-minute goal from Mike Hanke was enough to sink Bayern at the VW-Arena and topple them from the summit.

Volkswagen ends short workweek in Europe (UPI)

Saturday, September 30th, 2006
HANNOVER, Germany, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Volkswagen AG, Europe's largest automaker, and its chief union agreed to extend the workweek for German employees without additional pay.

Union, Volkswagen OK more work, same pay (King County Journal)

Saturday, September 30th, 2006
HANOVER, Germany — Representatives from Volkswagen and Germany's biggest industrial union said Friday they had agreed to increase working hours at plants in western Germany by more than four hours a week to 33 hours without any increase in pay.

Anger Management: Volkswagen’s CrossGolf (Edmunds.com)

Friday, September 29th, 2006
PARIS — When we first heard the name CrossGolf, we wondered why Volkswagen's latest Golf / Rabbit derivative was angry.

Dude, Don’t You Hate Our Commercials? (AdWeek.com via Yahoo! News)

Friday, September 29th, 2006
At first, you think it must be a spoof. After all, it looks like all the other Volkswagen "Safe Happens" spots, the ones that caused so much controversy this spring by depicting casual conversations interrupted by graphic car crashes. But this time, the two women in the VW are having a casual conversation about, well, those VW commercials.

VW workers agree to a longer week (International Herald Tribune)

Friday, September 29th, 2006
Volkswagen and its chief union, IG Metall, struck a deal Friday that extends the company's famously short working hours with no additional pay in exchange for guarantees of new investments and production in Germany.

Anger Management: Volkswagen’s CrossGolf (Edmunds.com)

Friday, September 29th, 2006
PARIS — When we first heard the name CrossGolf, we wondered why Volkswagen's latest Golf / Rabbit derivative was angry.

Photos: Classic VW camper gets tech treatment (CNET)

Friday, September 29th, 2006
Can a relic from the flower power era set down new roots in the digital age?

VW workers agree to work longer (BBC News)

Friday, September 29th, 2006
Volkswagen strikes a deal with unions to extend the working week at six German plants without any increase in pay.

VW workers agree to work longer (BBC News)

Friday, September 29th, 2006
Volkswagen strikes a deal with unions to extend the working week at six German plants without any increase in pay.

 
 

 


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