VW Group and unions disagree on plan to streamline the automaker

Volkswagen Group is doing well with electric vehicle sales in its home region, but costly tariffs and eroding market share in China and North America have been hurting it badly. Europe's largest automaker, which also owns brands including Audi, Porsche, Skoda, and Lamborghini, has seen its profit margins evaporate, and yesterday the company's supervisory board was presented with a plan to ameliorate that. An expected call for factory closures and redundancies wasn't included—at least not in VW G