After a marathon 22-hour negotiation, the IG Metall union and the Sudwestmetall employers' organization agreed, on November 12, 2008, in Sindelfingen - in the Bade-Wurttemberg pilot region -on a two-step wage increase: 2.1% on February 1, 2009 and again 2.1% on May 1, 2009. The approximately 800.000 metalworkers of the Bade-Wurttemberg region will also get a single 510 euros bonus for November and December 2008 and for January 2009. The agreement should be extended to the rest of the country. (Ref. 080888)
Signed for 18 months (from November 1, 2008 to the end of April 2010), the collective agreement was qualified of “decent result” in a “difficult context” by Bertold Huber, leader of the IG Metall, which demanded an 8% wage increase for the 3.6 million employees in the metallurgy and electronics sector. “We are not overcome with joy with this agreement” the unionist said, “but we managed to combine employees from the metallurgy and electronics sectors” with businesses’ financial situation. The l
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