{"id":1889,"date":"2007-08-21T09:25:06","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T08:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/21\/volkswagen-increases-pay-and-benefits-in-mexico\/"},"modified":"2007-08-24T09:34:55","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T08:34:55","slug":"volkswagen-increases-pay-and-benefits-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2007\/08\/21\/volkswagen-increases-pay-and-benefits-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen Increases Pay and Benefits in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/volkswagenblog.dubautoparts.com\/volkswagen-increases-pay-and-benefits-in-mexico.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"070824_vw-mexico.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/070824_vw-mexico.jpg\" title=\"070824_vw-mexico.jpg\" alt=\"070824_vw-mexico.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>After the averted weekend strike of employees over wages, the Mexican unit of German automaker Volkswagen AG agreed to a pay rise with its 11,000 unionised workers. Volkswagen\u2019s plant in Mexico is the world\u2019s only producer of Volkswagen\u2019s New Beetle model. Jose Luis Rodriguez, union leader, said that workers won a 5.5 per cent increase in pay and benefits, lower than their 8.3 per cent demand but above an initial company offer of 2.5 per cent. \u201cWe were able to increase (the company\u2019s) first salary proposal,\u201d Rodriguez told a news conference after late-night talks in the Labor Ministry in the Mexican capital. According to Automotive News, the average wage for hourly workers at the plant is $28.25 per day, plus another $9.71 benefit for transportation and food vouchers. The plant, which employs 10,264 hourly workers, produces Jetta A5s, Jetta A4s, New Beetles and Golf\/Bora\/Jetta station wagons for Mexico and world markets. The Volkswagen plant in the central Mexican state of Puebla, 75 miles (120 km) east of Mexico City, exports mainly to the United States and Europe. It is Volkswagen\u2019s only plant in North America. This year, the plant has a target output of 400,000 vehicles compared to production of 347,020 in 2006, when the company went through a six-day pay strike. Image source: <span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\">dw-world.de. <\/span>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/volkswagenblog.dubautoparts.com\/volkswagen-increases-pay-and-benefits-in-mexico.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: Mexico<\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | Company: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=3\">Volkswagen<span id=\"bodytext\"><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/volkswagenblog.dubautoparts.com\/volkswagen-increases-pay-and-benefits-in-mexico.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volkswagen Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the averted weekend strike of employees over wages, the Mexican unit of German automaker Volkswagen AG agreed to a pay rise with its 11,000 unionised workers. Volkswagen\u2019s plant in Mexico is the world\u2019s only producer of Volkswagen\u2019s New Beetle model. Jose Luis Rodriguez, union leader, said that workers won a 5.5 per cent increase&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-volkswagen","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}