Volkswagen workers are asking the automotive company's leadership to focus on continuing to operate business successfully and not on power struggles between high-ranking officials, Agence France-Presse reports.
"We ask that the focus should return to the successful day-to-day running of the company and its 600,000 employees, rather than on debates that fill newspapers," the head of Volkswagen's general works committee Bernd Osterloh told Handelsblatt, according to the site.
"We will not participate in any further discussions about people and their positions," Osterloh added.
The referenced debate involves the ongoing dispute between Volkswagen supervisory board chief Ferdinand Piech and chief executive Martin Winterkorn.
Piech, the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche and a major shareholder of the German automaker, recently revealed during a recent interview that he has "distanced" himself from Winterkorn over the direction of the company. Winterkorn, on the other hand, is "fighting back" internal attempts to remove him from his current position.
Winterkorn was appointed as chief executive in 2007 and is slated to end his contract until the end of 2016.
"Piëch always takes a long-term perspective and just when you think he's down and out - bam! - he comes back," an unnamed Volkswagen supervisory board member said, according to the Financial Times.
Volkswagen was founded in 1937 in Wolfsburg, Germany.
