FRANKFURT, June 30 (Reuters) - Europe's biggest carmaker Volkswagen said on Monday strikes by engineering workers in eastern Germany had cost it 22,000 units of production, but said it would restart its main plant on Tuesday.
VW was forced to stop production of its top-selling Golf model at its main Wolfsburg plant after the strikes, which ended on Saturday, prevented it from getting parts from its eastern Mosel and Chemnitz factories.
"Work has started again today at Mosel and Chemnitz, so we will also be able to start normal production again tomorrow in Wolfsburg," VW spokesman Peter Schlelein said.
Chief Executive Bernd Pischetsrieder told Reuters last Monday the disruption would probably have lost the company 20,000 units of production by the end of last week.