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By the end of 2008, BMW will relieve 8,100 workers of their jobs. Â More than half of them are part-timers; another 2,500 are full-time workers in Germany where BMW employs 75% of its workers and sells 20% of its product. Â 600 overseas jobs will be cut, but at the same time as all of these cutbacks (the first job cuts since the turn of the century for BMW), the builder of the Ultimate Driving Machines plans to hire 500 skilled workers.
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- Mercedes-benz Reshuffles Production, Next C-class To Be Built In Bremen And U.s. Plants From 2014, No Lay-offs In Sindelfingen Until 2020
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- Honda To Shut Down Uk Swindon Plant Until June!
Matters are going from worse to bad for the workers at Honda's Swindon plant as, in addition to halting production in February and March, the Japanese automaker has extended the temporary shutdown of its U.K. factory for the months of April and May....
- Gm - Uaw Deal: Non-core Workers To Get Half Pay!
As many insiders predicted when General Motors and the United Auto Workers (UAW) shook hands earlier this week, the shift of $50 billion in health-care obligations to the union fund was just half the story. Citing people with knowledge of the plan, Bloomberg...
- Next Bmw Z4 To Be Built In Germany And Not The Us
According to a report from “Just-Autoâ€, a BMW spokesperson confirmed today that the second generation Z4 model which is due to be unveiled either towards the end of 2008 or early 2009, will be built in BMW’s German plant in Regensburg...
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By the end of 2008, BMW will relieve 8,100 workers of their jobs. Â More than half of them are part-timers; another 2,500 are full-time workers in Germany where BMW employs 75% of its workers and sells 20% of its product. Â 600 overseas jobs will be cut, but at the same time as all of these cutbacks (the first job cuts since the turn of the century for BMW), the builder of the Ultimate Driving Machines plans to hire 500 skilled workers.To see all GoodCarBadCar posts relative to BMW, click here
BMW has more than 100,000 employees worldwide and sold 1.5million vehicles last year.  Along with the 1-series, 3-series, 5-series, 6-series, 7-series, Z4 roadster and coupe, X3, X5, Mini, and Rolls-Royce; BMW will soon begin building the X6 in North Carolina. With a substantial portion of its sport-activity vehicles being sold in the USA, it has always seemed obvious - at least in a financial and logistical sense - that BMW would build its first SAV, the X5, in Spartanburg.  Now, BMW is taking Z4 production back home to Europe and moving the X3 to America, as well. Â
In order for the Spartanburg plant to be fit and ready for a three-pronged approach to sport-ute building, BMW is investing $750,000,00 in readying the plant to build all the X models for all world markets. Production should hit 240,000 by 2012.
- Audi Begins Production Of New Q3 Suv In Spain
The first series production version of Audi’s new Q3 small SUV rolled off the assembly line today at the SEAT factory in Martorell, located in Spain’s Catalonia region. Built in 1993, the Martorell plant currently employs more than 10,000...
- Mercedes-benz Reshuffles Production, Next C-class To Be Built In Bremen And U.s. Plants From 2014, No Lay-offs In Sindelfingen Until 2020
Daimler AG's management and workers have reached an agreement to preserve jobs at the firm's Sindelfingen plant in Germany until the end of 2019 following the automaker's decision to reorganization its worldwide production network and discontinue...
- Honda To Shut Down Uk Swindon Plant Until June!
Matters are going from worse to bad for the workers at Honda's Swindon plant as, in addition to halting production in February and March, the Japanese automaker has extended the temporary shutdown of its U.K. factory for the months of April and May....
- Gm - Uaw Deal: Non-core Workers To Get Half Pay!
As many insiders predicted when General Motors and the United Auto Workers (UAW) shook hands earlier this week, the shift of $50 billion in health-care obligations to the union fund was just half the story. Citing people with knowledge of the plan, Bloomberg...
- Next Bmw Z4 To Be Built In Germany And Not The Us
According to a report from “Just-Autoâ€, a BMW spokesperson confirmed today that the second generation Z4 model which is due to be unveiled either towards the end of 2008 or early 2009, will be built in BMW’s German plant in Regensburg...