The Works Council and IG Metall union are just as unwilling to defend Ford auto worker jobs in Cologne as they were in Saarlouis, which is set to close at the cost of 9,000 jobs.

IGM and the works council are urging the workforce to accept an “overall packet” in a ballot on February 22. This would be the final nail in the coffin that the works council head is hammering ...

Works council head Nasikkol said the government should now get involved to help solve the dispute that has engulfed Germany's largest steelmaker and its roughly 27,000 employees.