On the occasion of today’s hearing on the NRW state budget for 2024, Anja Weber, chairwoman of the DGB NRW, is calling for a paradigm shift in financial policy: “North Rhine-Westphalia is increasingly living off its substance: Broken roads and railways, dilapidated schools, too few daycare places, a lack of living space and underfunded hospitals … Read more
Is Germany developing into a divided society? A Berlin research team has examined the “trigger points”, those particularly controversial hot topics and central conflict lines of inequality that promote polarization. Thomas Gesterkamp spoke to the sociologist Steffen Mau, one of the authors involved. Steffen Mau, born in 1968, is professor of macrosociology at Berlin’s Humboldt … Read more
Los Angeles (dpa) – The US screenwriters have accepted a new collective agreement with the major Hollywood studios by a clear majority. 99 percent of the writers’ union members were in favor of the agreement, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) announced on Monday (local time). In the ratification process, 8,435 members voted for the … Read more
“2.5 percent is disrespectful and means a massive permanent loss of real wages” Vienna (OTS) – The collective bargaining negotiations for the approximately 200,000 employees in the metal industry continued on October 9th with the second round of negotiations between the trade unions PRO-GE and GPA and the Trade Association of the Metal Technology Industry … Read more
It’s not the poor and unemployed who make it easy for themselves, but the Chancellor of the Republic Vienna (OTS) – It is a familiar scene in which Chancellor Nehammer’s current video takes place: a privileged circle, mostly men. The topics that the Chancellor presents to this apparently tight-knit audience in a sociable and familiar … Read more