Volkswagen management and workers are renewing negotiations in Brussels on Thursday to discuss the future of the Volkswagen plant there.
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Volkswagen wants to cease Golf production at the plant from 2007 and concentrate production of that model at the Wolfsburg and Zwickau plants.
4,000 of a total of 5,400 jobs will be affected by this move, but Volkswagen has agreed that it will build the Audi A1 in Brussels from 2009. That would require employment of 3,000 at the plant. A pre-condition of Brussels winning the contract to build the new Audi is that workers agree to a longer working week.
Until now, 1,500 workers have accepted voluntary redundancy, according to dpa-AFX.
Workers at the plant are still on strike. They downed tools on 17 November and have not produced any cars since then. The strike became official on Sunday 3 December.
