After the manager Diess lost the support of the works council, the supervisory board is now moving away. Insiders speak of a possible vote of no confidence, which should be just around the corner.
The dispute between VW boss Herbert Diess and several members of the supervisory board is getting worse. Shortly before an information event for the workforce at the Wolfsburg headquarters, rumors were circulating that the manager was supposed to have had a violent clash with the works council and the state of Lower Saxony. Nobody in corporate circles wanted to say openly that the CEO might have fallen out of favor. But the mood, so it was said by several people around the group, was very bad.
According to industry insiders, the main point of the dispute is the speed required by Diess in restructuring the group. Most recently, the CEO caused unrest through comments that up to 30,000 jobs in Germany would be on the brink if the conversion did not succeed quickly enough. The focus is on the main plant in Wolfsburg, which is worried about its capacity utilization.
