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.
