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Volkswagen Braces for Fresh Walkouts on Monday as Talks Resume

Workers stage a warning strike at VW’s plant in Zwickau on Dec. 2.Photographer: Iona Dutz/Bloomberg
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Volkswagen AG workers are gearing up for a second wave of walkouts across German plants on Monday, when management and labor leaders will hold a fourth round of talks over how to slash costs at the carmaker’s namesake brand.

The so-called warning strikes — designed to pressure executives during deadlocked negotiations — will last four hours, the IG Metall union said in a statement. That will mean double the production time lost at nine of VW’s German plants earlier this week.