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Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - The North Rhine-Westphalian metal employers have criticized the IG Metall warning strikes in the current collective bargaining round as "unnecessary and superfluous".

The industry, which is dependent on functioning international supply chains, is already in an acute threat situation because of the corona pandemic, said the chief executive of the Association of the Metal and Electrical Industry of North Rhine-Westphalia, Luitwin Mallmann, on Wednesday.

This pressure will be increased again by the warning strikes.

The union is now also causing difficulties for those companies "that still have enough to do".

IG Metall started warning strikes on Tuesday after four unsuccessful rounds of negotiations.

There were also work stoppages in NRW on Wednesday.

The union is demanding four percent more wages for the approximately 700,000 employees in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Where things are going badly in a company, the money should be used for a partial wage adjustment with working hours reduced to four days.

So far, employers have promised wage increases for 2022 at the earliest and want automatic deviations from the wage level for weaker companies.

Mallmann called on IG Metall to show "movement at the negotiating table".

The goal of securing employment can only be achieved through a quick, sustainable and resilient solution to the collective bargaining round.

"Warning strike actions make people unsafe, but they do not create the prospects that those involved urgently expect," stressed Mallmann.

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