Since the IG Metall launched, on April 9, 2008, a national campaign in favor of equal treatment between agency and permanent workers, the conflict in the temporary work sector has intensified (see our dispatch No. 080118). AMP, the employers' federation of temporary agencies, is accusing the IG Metall of blackmailing temp work agencies to force them to apply the collective agreements signed by the German Confederation of Trade Unions DGB. The union denies. (Ref. 080297)
Entitled “Equal pay for equal work”, the IG Metall’s campaign mostly aims at improving agency workers’ pay in the metallurgy and electronics sector. Indeed, the union reminds that the temporary work sector is booming. The number of agency workers in the metallurgy sector increased in 2007 of 40.000 compared to 2006, that is a 25% increase. Yet, according to the IG Metall, more and more companies appeal to agency workers, not to face a sudden increase in the demand, but to replace their permanen
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