Volkswagen headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany.

In front of Volkswagen CEO Herbert is Volkswagen's global one-year results last year and Volkswagen's global sales in April this year.

If I were to express it in one word, it would be appalling.

In the Beimi car market.

Volkswagen has been in a sales weakness.

In the past, it had to face competition from Toyota, Hyundai, and a large number of local American auto companies, and now it also faces competition from Tesla, a new energy vehicle.

Therefore, Volkswagen has never expected that it can make money in the North American market.

Not to mention the European market, the auto market is heavily involved.

The most concentrated place of global automobile companies is Europe.

It's pretty good that Volkswagen can maintain its original share.

In addition, in recent years, the high welfare society in Europe has become unsustainable.

After missing the Internet age.

The economic situation in Europe has not been good.

Except for a few small countries with some economic growth, the economies of mainstream European countries, including Germany, are in recession.

The direct impact of the economic recession is that consumers' consumption desires are reduced, and consumers have no consumption desires, and it is even less likely to spend a lot of money to buy your car.

Even if users are willing to buy a car, the brand they buy is Toyota Hyundai's fuel-efficient and durable models.

The public is becoming increasingly unpopular with the local European population.

Therefore, Volkswagen continues to shrink in the European market.

In the past few years, the public has pinned their only hope in the world on the Xiaguo market.

Unexpectedly, Changtian Technology in the Xiaguo market would be born out of nowhere.

It took just two years to kill all the car companies in Europe, the United States, Dongyang, and South Korea that had been working in Xiaguo for decades.

The financial report in front of Herbert showed that Volkswagen was losing money in Xiaguo last year and in April this year.

The loss amounted to 3 billion euros.

These are not counting the unsold inventory cars.

This data will be even uglier if the loss of inventory vehicles is accrued.

Affected by Xia Guo Volkswagen's failure to sell.

Many factories established by Volkswagen in Xiaguo have been closed down, employees have been dismissed, and equipment has been idled.

Moreover, it is affected by Xia Guo's terminal market.

The upstream and downstream industry chain of Volkswagen parts has also been seriously affected.

Automobile is an industry that is very particular about planning and supporting.

For example, if you produce a complete vehicle, then your supporting parts will be produced in a certain proportion.

If you can't sell a car, then of course you can't sell the supporting parts you produced, after all, there will be no after-sales for this car.

Therefore, the collapse of Xia Guo's sales has directly affected Volkswagen's European companies.

In order to save costs, most of the factories that have left Europe have also been closed since the end of last year, and have not resumed production until now.

Up to 50,000 employees were affected.

When calculating the industrial workers involved in the upstream and downstream industrial chains, as well as related employees, there are as many as hundreds of thousands.

Behind these hundreds of thousands of people are hundreds of thousands of German families with millions of people.

If the income of these millions of people decreases, they will definitely increase their savings and severely reduce expenditures, involving tens of millions of industries and personnel.

Therefore, the sales of German cars including Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Audi Volkswagen in Xiaguo are affected, which directly affects the entire German economy.

German economists predict that Germany's economic growth rate will reach minus 3 this year, setting a "new high" in history, and the new high here is a new negative high.

While Herbert was in the meeting, there were still large-scale employees protesting downstairs in the Volkswagen headquarters.

Protesting crowds held signs and shouted slogans.

demand compensation from the public.

It is required that the public cannot fire employees.

Everyone was filled with righteous indignation, and many employees cried when they were interviewed by reporters.

In the past few years, the media in Xia Country has been promoting the blue-collar class in Germany.

It is said that although this part of the class has not gone to college, they have all studied in vocational technical schools. They have very strong technical skills, and they can find stable jobs after graduation. The income is not low at all, much higher than that of the local white collar.

Automobile industry workers are a typical blue-collar class, which is also the basic disk of the German national economy.

And now that basic plan has collapsed.

A reporter from Deutsche Zeitung interviewed a 40-year-old industrial worker with a video camera and a microphone.

This function is called Bazel, a local resident of Wolfsburg.

The three generations of Bazel's family are industrial workers. For nearly a hundred years, life has been very easy.

Relying on hardworking hands, Bazier bought a house and a Volkswagen in the urban area of Wolfsburg.

His wife works as a salesperson in a supermarket, and his son is also studying in a technical school, and is likely to become an industrial worker in the future.

Because the wages of blue-collar workers are very high, the Bazel family is relatively wealthy in the local area.

But this time, Bazel was laid off.

Because of mass layoffs at Volkswagen, Bazel was laid off.

Not only was Bazel laid off, but Bazel's son must have had a hard time finding a job after graduating from technical school.

The collapse of the German auto industry has affected ordinary people.

"Sir, what is your request?"

A reporter from the Deutsche Zeitung asked.

Bazel said very angrily: "We asked to return to work. I have been working very seriously for more than 10 or 20 years. I have not asked for a day off during working hours. We have not made excessive demands. We just hope that we can return to work. Back to work."

As soon as Bazel said, the disabled workers around him were also filled with righteous indignation, shouting in unison: "We want to go back to work, and we strongly demand that we can go back to work."

"Volkswagen cannot lay us off at will."

"We need jobs, we need wages, we need to survive."

The mood of the people is getting bigger and bigger, and the demonstrations went directly from the square outside the Volkswagen to the gate of the Volkswagen headquarters.

And the number of people participating in the rally is also increasing.

A reporter made a rough count at the scene, and the number of people demonstrating at the scene may be as many as 30,000.

After the protesting crowd arrived at Volkswagen headquarters, Volkswagen's security staff had no way to resist the crowd, so they had to ask the police to dispatch.

The police in Germany are not so polite. As long as these demonstrations do not abide by the corresponding rules, the police will greet them with batons.

In just a few minutes, the scene was in a panic.

The mass industry workers, including Bazel, were all knocked to the ground, lying on the ground and struggling.

The demonstrators were either arrested or beaten and soon dispersed.

But this incident has aroused strong repercussions in Wolfsburg and throughout Germany.

TV stations and self-media are repeatedly reporting this incident.

The media were also given permission to interview VW executives.

Herbert was interviewed by many European media in his office.

BBC: "Mr. Herbert, what do you think of the mass industrial workers' demonstrations this time? Did your layoffs violate labor laws?"

Of course Herbert knew that many people were demonstrating.

But he is a qualified CEO and capitalist.

Any decision made is based on the financial interests of the company, not from an emotional point of view.

Herbert himself is also very irritable. From last year to now, Volkswagen's profit has declined, which also makes him feel that it is in danger.

But in the face of media interviews, Herbert still controlled his emotions.

Herbert said: "Volkswagen's recruitment or layoffs are in line with the laws of economic development. We also compensated these layoffs in strict accordance with labor laws."

"Volkswagen's problem with layoffs is fully in line with German regulations."

After Herbert answered this question, his expression didn't change at all.

It seems that the people of those causes and the tens of thousands of families behind them have nothing to do with him.

The Times reporter asked again: "As we all know, Volkswagen, as the world's most famous car company and the largest car company in Germany, has been steadily increasing its profits. What is the reason for this layoff?"

Herbert was not at all ashamed of his company's crisis.

Because Volkswagen's crisis is also a crisis for the entire European auto industry.

This is definitely unavoidable.

What's more, the top executives and shareholders of Volkswagen also hope to take this opportunity to put pressure on Germany and the European Union, so that they can find ways to support the public and help the public to tide over the difficulties.

So Herbert laughed, sat on the sofa, and said to the reporters with some helplessness: "Why and Volkswagen layoffs? This is also the question I want to ask, affected by new energy vehicles, especially Tesla and Affected by Xia Guochangtian Technology's bio-new energy vehicles, Volkswagen's global sales have fallen sharply."

"In the second half of last year and the first four months of this year, the sum of all sales was not as much as a quarter a few years ago."

"Volkswagen has faced serious losses since last year."

"We have closed many of Volkswagen's auto factories in the European summer country and reduced expenses, but there is still no way to curb the loss of the group company."

"Of course, the slow sales of cars will affect the operation of our entire production line, so we have also closed many car production lines, and those idle employees are also a great burden for us, so we have laid off employees in accordance with the requirements of relevant laws and given them Employees get the highest compensation within the law."

After Herbert said these words, the reporters who interviewed him had another feeling.

In fact, we sympathized with some unemployed industrial workers at the beginning, and felt that Herbert and the people behind him were **** capital that cannibalize people without spitting out their bones.

But now hearing Herbert introduce the situation of the public, I also feel that the public is in a very crisis.

The reporters are also very clear that Volkswagen is a pillar industry in Germany. If Volkswagen is finished, the German economy will suffer a devastating blow.

After the interview, the mainstream media in Europe shifted their focus from the living conditions of the industrial workers in the cause to the problems in the auto industry in Germany and even in Europe as a whole.

A number of media reported that because of the new bio-energy vehicles launched by Changtian Technology, the European auto industry has suffered a devastating blow, losing the Xia country market in a short period of time, and will soon lose the global market.

The Economist's analysis is very objective, saying: "Europe's auto industry developed a hundred years ago, which is also an advantage for Europe, but today, it is actually a disadvantage.

The huge industrial chain of fuel vehicles and the millions of industrial workers behind them have prevented the automobile groups in various European countries from successfully completing the new energy vehicle revolution. The European automobile industry lags behind the world, behind the United States and Xia. Inevitable historical law. "

"The fall of the auto industry indicates that the European economy will experience severe pain in the next few years, and may even lead to an irreversible recession. The European economy has already stood at a crossroads. How to get Europe out of the quagmire of the economic crisis is a test The wisdom of the EU."

The media are objective analysts.

Some extreme anti-China media had no way to shout at Changtian Technology's bio-new energy vehicles, and they didn't even say the word boycott.

Because Changtian Technology defeated European auto companies in the Xiaguo market, not in the European market.

How to resist Changtian Technology's bio-new energy vehicles?

Is it possible to call on Xiaguo users to boycott Changtian Technology's new energy vehicles?

Isn't this a fantasy? What is it?

But ordinary consumers don't care what kind of economist or the Times reports~www.mtlnovel.com~ and they don't even look at the economic logic behind the European recession and the unemployment of a large number of workers. What they think about is their own If you are unemployed, have no money or income, you must pay a job, and you must get a job that pays well.

In the spring of 2019, Europe was very sad.

Volkswagen, including its Porsche, Audi, etc., Peugeot, Citroen, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Skoda, Fiat and other rental companies have reduced factories, and even closed production lines and factories.

Skoda and Fiat even declared bankruptcy outright.

Skoda was originally invested by the public. It used to feel that it was backed by a big tree and had a safe future.

But now the public can't protect themselves, so they told the graduates that they support Skoda.

The entire European auto industry is in a state of turmoil, and bankruptcies and reduced production are happening every day.

Unemployment is also sweeping across the continent.

Demonstrations and demonstrations in various countries continued, fire prevention, vandalism, and zero-dollar purchases also swept across Europe.

The people took to the streets, hoping to have a job and an income.

The New York Times commented with some gloat: "Europe's auto industry chain has completely collapsed."

But he commented sharply: "Changtian Technology has caused the financial crisis in Europe."

To be precise, they are all employees, because these people have been laid off by Volkswagen headquarters.

The masses are capitalists, not philanthropists.

When the company's operations encounter problems.

Of course, the first thing to consider is to ensure the normal operation of the company and reduce expenses, not to pay employees.