The branch of metallurgy and electronics, which employs some 3,4 million people in Germany, should be affected by an important wage conflict soon. Taking up the recommendations made by its regional tariff commissions, the direction of IG-Metall announced, Friday January 20, its claims for the wage negotiations to come. The trade union is thus demanding a 5% rise in wages for 2006, a collective agreement on permanent training and innovation, as well as a collective agreement on advantages being added to wages. (Ref. 0653)
“Our claims are not exaggerated. They tally with the performances of the German industry of metallurgy and electronics “, declared Jürgen Peters, president of IG-Metall, during a press conference in Frankfurt. He estimates that the profits of the 40 largest listed metallurgical companies have doubled between 2003 and 2006.
In an interview the day before in the daily newspaper Berliner Zeitung, the president of the German employers’ organization Gesamtmetall, Martin Kannegiesser, had anticipated
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