The collective agreement negotiated in 2007 for the 3.4 million employees in the electrotechnical metallurgy and automotive sectors will be over on October 30, 2008. The IG Metall is already getting ready to re-bargain for the agreement and announced that the 6.5% required in 2007 will be "far wide of the mark" for 2008, especially since inflation restarted. (Ref. 080590)
Bertold Huber, leader of the IG Metall, announced at the beginning of 2008 that wage claims would be higher than in 2007, notably because of the inflation rate. This stand was confirmed with the beginning of the internal process for the definition of claims, which the IG Metall will present in September: the union’s claims will be much higher than the 6.5% demanded in 2007 and will absolutely not take into consideration the recommendations made by Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European
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