Thousands of employees of German automotive supplier ZF are protesting against the company’s planned job cuts, with some 3,000 expected at the company’s headquarters in Friedrichshafen alone on Tuesday. “We are taking this action because we have to defend ourselves against this frontal attack on the workforce in Germany,” said a works council spokesman. Workers from a plant in the city of Saarbrücken in western Germany, which currently has 10,000 employees, are also taking part in the day of action, while the workforce in the south-western city of Mannheim were looking to protest with a motorc…