Collective bargaining round: "More differentiation needed" – IG Metall demands "flexibility downwards and upwards"
Two regional IG Metall bosses are suggesting that collective pay be more closely tied to the company's success. This would mean that arms and energy companies would be asked to pay more and car manufacturers would be spared.
IG Metall district managers have proposed a plan to bridge the huge gap within the industry ahead of major collective bargaining in the autumn. The proposal involves higher-paying companies giving employees a bonus in exchange for a lower overall tariff agreement for the approximately four million employees in the metal and electrical industries.
This could spare struggling parts of the industry, particularly automakers and their suppliers. Since 2019, nearly 340,000 jobs have been lost in the metal and electrical industry, with a corresponding loss of around €40 billion in value added, according to employer association Gesamtmetall.
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