On the occasion of a debate in the Bundestag on the bill increasing the legal retirement age from 65 to 67, the German union confederation DGB organized, on February 26, a large demonstration in front of the Parliament to try to stop this reform. This action day follows a series of measures already launched by the union IG-Metall in the companies (Ref. 70140). (Ref. 070178)
“All those who do not have assistants to help them are not able to work after 65”, denounced Michael Sommer, president of DGB, qualifying the bill as “the large coalition’s main lie”.“Only 40% of the companies employ people over 50” he reminded. The unionist also vividly criticized the declarations made by Michael Glos, federal Minister of the Economy, who, in an interview granted to the weekly newspaper Der Spiegel, (February 26,) had not ruled out, a new extension of the retirement age after
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