VW Labor Boss Vows to Block New Turkey Plant Amid Violence
- Osterloh: Turkey ‘tries to use war and force’ to pursue goals
- $1.4 billion factory is central to Middle East growth plan
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Volkswagen AG’s powerful labor unions vowed to block the manufacturer’s plan to build a 1.3 billion-euro ($1.4 billion) factory in Turkey until violence triggered by the country’s cross-border offensive in northern Syria has stopped.
“I want to say very clearly: the labor representatives repudiate approval as long as Turkey tries to reach its political goals with war and force,” VW’s global works council chief and supervisory board member Bernd Osterloh said in remarks published in a staff newspaper seen by Bloomberg.