BRATISLAVA: Workers at Volkswagen Slovakia are set to strike on Tuesday over unmet demands for a 16 percent pay rise from the country’s largest private employer, a union official said Monday.

Trade union chief Zoroslav Smolinsky at the VW plant in the Slovak capital Bratislava said that up to 90 percent of it 12,300 employees are expected to down tools after company officials offered an 8.6-percent wage rise.

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