…So far there is very little evidence to support VW’s claims that it is making every effort. In fact, workers have been actively asking for VW, particularly VW international, to play a more active role in finding a mutually acceptable solution. VW could, for example, send a delegation from VW international to investigate the situation and report openly their findings. The record of events provided by workers themselves does not show that the company has made efforts to find a mutually acceptable solution between workers and VW…One of the workers representatives, Fu Tianbo, is currently in police custody. He was arrested along with three other worker representatives in late May of this year. VW has yet to respond to this fact...

VW is obliged to recognise the legitimacy of worker representatives and "respectively work together openly and in the spirit of constructive and co-operative conflict management” according to its own international standards set in its Global Framework Agreement…In their meetings with the company, worker representatives have repeatedly asked for the company to prove that full employees and subcontracted workers are paid by the same standards. Workers report that the company has refused to divulge the pay system on the grounds that it is a company secret…