Volkswagen Should Rethink China Presence, Says Union Leader

BERLIN—The head of Germany’s influential metalworker commerce union urged Volkswagen to rethink its presence in western China, the place leaders of Western nations and human-rights teams say Beijing is persecuting the Uyghur Muslim minority.

The name is the newest salvo in a rising marketing campaign to drive the world’s second-largest automotive maker to close down a manufacturing facility in Xinjiang, which has turn into the central focus for critics of the corporate’s heavy reliance on China as a market and manufacturing base.