Warning strikes in Lower Saxony: IG Metall increases pressure on employers!

Warning strikes in Lower Saxony: IG Metall increases pressure on employers!

Flensburg, Deutschland - In the tariff conflict of the metal and electrical industry, it is bubbling hard! IG Metall has announced that it will massively expand its warning strikes on Tuesday after the first promotions took place on Monday. The pressure on employers should be further increased! In Lower Saxony, Siemens Gamesa in Cuxhaven and Airbus Aerostructures in Stade are on the strike list. In Schleswig-Holstein there will also be a rally in front of the works gate The Motor Competence Center Holding in Flensburg. In Hamburg, employees in four companies, including Arcelormittal and Diehl Aviation, are called to the warning strike.

The mood is heated! Thorsten Gröger, district manager of IG Metall, leaves no doubt about it: "The first week was a strong start, but now we are going to put a step on it!" Around 12,000 employees from Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt took part in the first strike. The union is determined to make it clear to employers in the coming days that their patience will be over. On Thursday there is a coastal campaign day in which work is put down in several cities-a sign that employers cannot ignore!

claims and reactions

IG Metall demands a wage increase of seven percent and 170 euros more for trainees. The offer of employers, which provides for an increase of 3.6 percent over 27 months, is rejected as inadequate. "The offer starts far too late and the term is far too long!" Said Gröger. The employers, on the other hand, argue that their offers are among the highest of the past 20 years and that the union's demands are no longer up to date. Lower Saxony Metal boss Volker Schmidt warns a "bone-hard winter half year" and demands willingness to compromise.

The obligation to peace has fallen since October 29, and the warning strikes have expanded rapidly since then. Around 23,400 employees from Bremen, Hamburg, Nordwestniedersachsen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein have already joined the striking. From the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg to the VW plant in Osnabrück-the wave of protests rolls! IG Metall has a firm grip on the north, and the employers have to dress warmly!