Volkswagen Should Rethink China Presence, Says Union Leader

BERLIN—The head of Germany’s influential metalworker trade union urged Volkswagen to reconsider its presence in western China, where leaders of Western countries and human-rights groups say Beijing is persecuting the Uyghur Muslim minority.

The call is the latest salvo in a growing campaign to force the world’s second-largest car maker to shut down a factory in Xinjiang, which has become the central focus for critics of the company’s heavy reliance on China as a market and manufacturing base.