Wages. They will increase by 3% from June 2006 to March 2007. For IG-Metall, which claimed 5% for the 3,4 million employees of Germany’s metal-working industries, it is still a victory. Because the increase starts by the symbolic figure of three percent. Employers had offered only a rise of 1,2%. In addition, the agreement will be valid only 13 months. The last wage settlement in metallurgy, adopted on 12 February 2004 in Bade-Wurtemberg, provided a 2,2% wage increase as of 1 March 2004...
Germany: main measures of the agreement concluded in the engineering industry
Already copied by four regions (Bade-Wurtemberg, Hesse, Osnabrück/Emsland and Thüringe), the agreement adopted 22 April 2006 by IG-Metall and the employers' organization Metall NRW in Düsseldorf (North Rhineland-Westphalia) was described "as historical" by many observers (see our article n°6400). Here are the main innovations. (Ref. 06408)
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