Germany/serious strike action threat in metals sector. On 08 January and ahead of the third round of collective negotiations that are due to start on 11 January in Baden-Wurtemberg, the IG Metall union triggered a series of warning strikes that impacted 80 businesses and involved 15,000 employees in North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Wurtemberg, and the Berlin-Brandenberg-Saxony regions. Today January 9, nearly 60,000 employees from 180 companies were in strike throughout the country. Central to this discord is that apart from a 6% pay rise the IG Metal union is calling for the each of the 3.9 million metal sector workers to have the right to temporarily transition to a 28 hour working week for a period of two years complete with a ‘wage subsidy’, if they need to look after young children or close dependent relatives or are working on the 3/8 basis (c.f.
News update as of January 9, 2018
On the menu: Spanish courts require companies to implement their equal pay plans for interim workers, German metals worker strike action is looming, Italy's Labor Ministry defines call center labor costs, Iceland looks towards a law for gender pay equality by 2022, Switzerland wants workers to share in the economic upturn and Endesa delivers a summary of its programme encouraging staff to find ways of improving the profitability of its oil, gas, and coal plants.
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