After two months of negotiations and several hundred walkouts across Germany, the social partners in the metalworking industry in two pilot regions (the coastal regions and Bavaria) have agreed on a compromise for a new collective agreement on wages which provides, among other things, for a 5.1% increase in three stages over 25 months. The IG Metall trade union and the Gesamtmetall employers' federation are calling it a balanced agreement in a fraught period. They are recommending that the agreement be applied to the entire sector (3.9 million employees) and are appealing to the political world.
Collective bargaining in the metalworking industry, which began in mid-September, has now reached its conclusion. On Tuesday 12 November, the social partners in the pilot regions of the coast and Bavaria announced that they had reached an agreement on wages. They revealed the details at a press conference on Tuesday morning. The IG Metall trade union and the employer organisation Gesamtmetall have called on all their regional federations to apply the agreement, a recommendation that is...
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Thomas Schnee
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