Federal Executive Board with lowest demand for ten years in the contract talks
Frankfurt. IG Metall has set a corridor for their wage demands in the upcoming round of collective bargaining. The board said after initial discussions in the union of districts for a range of 4.5 and 5.0 percent pay increase for the 3.8 million workers in the metal and electrical industry. Apart from the crisis year 2009, when the IG Metall went into the negotiations without number, which is the lowest requirement for ten years.
The request frame is financed by the companies and urgently to strengthen domestic demand commanded said IG Metall leader Jörg Hofmann in Frankfurt on Tuesday. The employers’ association total metal had the union already warned the companies to overstretch considering economic risks. Both sides expect difficult negotiations.
“What is the right number? Because there is and there were different opinions,” Hofmann said, referring to the discussion in the IG Metall board , Until the final decision after redeliberations in the seven districts tariff on 29 February, the union would monitor the economic development yet. The gains in the sector were higher than average in the past year with a net profit margin of 3.6 percent, added Hofmann. The prospects for 2016 are good. Of the districts of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and the Coast last week had demanded five percent, North Rhine-Westphalia, the range of 4.5 and 5.0 percent. The districts Mitte and Berlin-Brandenburg had up to five percent called, without giving a lower limit.
Negotiations begin in mid-March. Strikes are possible after the end of the peace obligation from the end of April. IG Metall wants to use the collective bargaining round also to expand their sphere of influence. The largest with 2.27 million members German union recognized at their sectoral collective agreement only slightly more than half the workforce. Two decades ago, the unemployment rate was still at 70 percent. “The collective bargaining coverage decreased dramatically in the 90s,” said Hofmann. “Now we want to turn this development.” Therefore there could be strikes and protests even when not bound by collective enterprises. Last year, the union had agreed 3.4 per cent with a demand of 5.5 percent after a warning strike wave with employers. Strikes lasted so far only been a few hours. Now draws the union into consideration, to increase the negotiating pressure by 24-hour strikes.
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