During the restructuring of the VW Group: Despite frustration, Diess is looking ahead again

During the rebuilding of the VW group
Despite frustration, Diess is looking ahead again

In the ongoing dispute with the works council, there is finally a ray of hope for VW boss Diess. The first steps towards e-mobility are having an impact in the company. Nevertheless, he is sometimes “dissatisfied” – also with his own performance, according to Diess.

With his goal of breaking up “encrusted structures”, VW CEO Herbert Diess encountered considerable resistance in the works council – he now sees more speed in the transformation. He was “certainly frustrated at one point or another,” said the CEO in an internal conversation about which employees could submit questions. But now he feels “very positively impressed by what is now moving here – which then makes me more satisfied again”.

This is receiving a lot of recognition in the automotive industry as a driver of the upheaval in the direction of e-mobility and digitization. For example, VW is planning a new plant for the Trinity electric model. Especially in the VW workforce representation, Diess has recently been offended again with considerations about possible further savings plans. Works council chief Daniela Cavallo sharply criticized him for spreading insecurity. You as well as Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD), IG Metall boss Jörg Hofmann and VW supervisory board boss Hans Dieter Pötsch are currently discussing in a mediation committee how to proceed. There is still no result.

When asked whether he sometimes gave up, Diess said: “Don’t give up, but be dissatisfied with your own performance.” Meanwhile, however, VW is “well on the way in the transformation” – in Europe as the market leader in e-cars, in the USA as number two behind Tesla. “A lot has been initiated and on the way now. I think otherwise you wouldn’t have a chance in competition with Tesla,” said Diess. After the most recent works meeting, he would like to organize other events with Cavallo, “because we can certainly only shape the change here – especially at the Wolfsburg location – if we work together.” Initially, he had canceled participation in the staff meeting.

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