BERLIN: Employees at German auto giant Volkswagen urged management Monday to settle a bitter power struggle and focus instead on running Europe's biggest carmaker following media reports of strained relations between VW's supervisory board chief and its CEO.

"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 VW's general works committee Bernd Osterloh told the business daily Handelsblatt.

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