The IG Metall union has called on workers in the metal and electrical industries in Baden-Württemberg to go on a warning strike. Affected today: Daimler Truck and Daimler Buses.
The warning strikes in the metal and electrical industries in Baden-Württemberg continue. Thousands of workers in the metal and electrical industries have been called on warning strikes. This Wednesday, employees of Daimler Truck and Daimler Buses are protesting at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Mannheim and in other parts of the country. This is intended to increase the pressure on employers in the ongoing collective bargaining. The negotiations in Hanover on Tuesday lasted less than an hour. Both sides are still far apart.
This is what the first day of the strike brought on Tuesday:
Further strikes in Baden-Württemberg
After the peace obligation expired in the collective bargaining dispute between IG Metall and the employers’ association Süwestmetall, the first warning strikes took place on Tuesday. According to IG Metall, almost 16,300 employees took part nationwide. There are also strikes at the production facilities of Mercedes-Benz in Rastatt and Kuppenheim and Daimler Truck in Gaggenau (both Rastatt district) and in the Pforzheim region.
According to the announcement, employees of seven companies in the IG Metall district of Ulm are being asked to stop work temporarily. Rallies in the Lake Constance-Upper Swabia region are planned, among others, at the Kramer works in Pfullendorf (Sigmaringen district) and Laupheim (Biberach district). Employees from Diehl Aviation, Kässbohrer Rundefahrzeug AG and Erwin Halder, among others, are expected to take part. There were further actions by IG Metall in Markdorf (Bodensee district) and in Radolfzell (Konstanz district), among others.
VW savings plans raise concerns
The warning strikes and negotiations are overshadowed by drastic savings plans at the car manufacturer VW. According to the works council there Plant closures, mass layoffs and wage cuts on the board’s agendawho initially did not confirm the plans in detail. There was also a crisis at the largest German car manufacturer Topic at the industry summit in the Chancellery on Tuesday.
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And Baden-Württemberg’s Economics Minister Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut (CDU) is also watching the automotive industry with concern: “To put it bluntly: it’s all about everything now,” said the minister. The automotive industry is facing the greatest challenge in its history. The transformation of the industry and a completely new international competitive situation led to upheavals in the domestic automotive industry. And this is also about Baden-Württemberg as a business location, about value creation, about the ability to reform and “about our prosperity,” said Hoffmeister-Kraut.
The minister criticizes the course of the federal government and the EU and instead calls for a national master plan for manufacturers and suppliers to the automotive industry alike. There is a need for “more market economy incentives and openness to technology instead of government guidance through more and more regulations and bans,” said Hoffmeister-Kraut.
This is how many companies are affected by the warning strikes in the southwest:
Regional collective bargaining in Böblingen on Thursday
If you look across Germany, according to IG Metall, around 71,000 people took part in strike actions in 370 companies in the metal and electrical industry on the first day of the strike. The negotiators on the union side are demanding, among other things, an increase in pay for trainees and seven percent more money for all employees.
IG Metall’s main argument for the wage increases demanded is the employees’ lack of purchasing power after years of high inflation. Metal employers have so far offered 3.6 percent over a period of 27 months – and point to weak production values and a lack of orders.
Regional collective bargaining in Bavaria will continue on Wednesday. This will be followed on Thursday by Baden-Württemberg in Böblingen, North Rhine-Westphalia in Neuss and the IG Metall district of Mitte (Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland) in Mainz.
