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IG Metall members at BMW Wackersdorf in 2015
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GERMANY’S powerful metals and engineering union IG Metall is set to demand an 8 per cent pay increase for 3.6 million workers as Europe’s biggest economy faces rising inflation, Tony Burke reports.
The union, which represents workers across the auto, aerospace, engineering and electrical industries, sets the pace for many other key industries in Germany.
Employers must now do their part to relieve household incomes, IG Metall president Joerg Hofmann said, as inflation in Germany hits highs not seen in decades.
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
NICK WRIGHT returns to Berlin and finds a city in darkness and political turmoil
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
