Dresden. Employees of the Ikea furniture store in Dresden are on strike on Tuesday morning from 10 a.m. A strike rally will therefore take place in front of the branch in Elbepark. They are supported by the sellers of some Edeka and Kaufland stores, who were on strike on September 9, announced the Verdi union on Tuesday morning.
The strike in Elbepark is not the only one: Ikea employees will also stop working this Tuesday in other federal states, including Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. “It will be difficult to buy furniture in Germany’s largest furniture store today,” says Verdi strike leader Jens Uhlig in Dresden.
Reason for the action: On September 13, the fourth round of negotiations for the 280,000 employees in the retail and mail order business in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia ended with no result.
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For Verdi it is clear that there must be a “real” real wage increase this year, explains negotiator Jörg Lauenroth-Mago. Employers tried to use the crisis and the associated uncertainty to distract from the good sales and profits and to enforce dumping tariff increases, Lauenroth-Mago added. For this reason, further strikes can be expected until the next round of negotiations on October 4th. (SZ)
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