In the labor dispute with the metal and electrical industry, IG Metall is preparing, according to a press release prior to an escalation. The head of the district coast of IG Metall, Meinhard Geiken said the Monday edition of the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, the union was “prepared on an indefinite strike”.
In addition, he pointed to the new strike concept that the union had decided in autumn.
This includes paralyze individual farms for 24 hours. “Whether we need this instrument will prove in the further negotiations”, Geiken the “SZ” said. As preliminary decision applies April 28. Then all IG Metall districts negotiate in parallel with the employers. To 24 pm that day, ending the peace obligation.
Warning strikes from the end of April
Earlier, the IG Metall had threatened strikes from the end of April, after the employer a wage increase of 0.9 percent had offered. The negotiator for North Rhine-Westphalia, Knut Giesler had designated the offer as a “provocation”. The union is demanding five percent wage increase in the current round of collective bargaining.
The employers had next to 0.9 percent pay a one-time payment of 0.3 percent of the previous salary offered. Thus, the employers’ organization oriented to the “economic reality”. The employers rated the economic situation more pessimistic than the union.
Indefinite strike recently in 2002
strikes are common in the metal and electrical industry with its 3.8 million employees. They usually last only a few hours. The 24-hour strike was decided by the IG Metall as an additional possibility of escalation. But no strike vote is necessary.
Geiken said the “SZ”, but before the vote of the workers will be obtained at the premises for selected. Indefinite strike there in the industry recently in 2002
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