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Munich (dpa / lby) - At the start of the third week of warning strikes in the Bavarian metal and electrical industry, IG Metall district chief Johann Horn has announced an expansion of the actions.
“We will maintain and gradually increase the pressure on employers in order to make progress at the negotiating table.
The employees cannot offer a zero round for 2021, ”said Horn on Monday.
The employers' association vbm, on the other hand, called for “realism” in view of the Corona crisis: “The top priority must now be to maintain sustainable jobs in Bavaria,” said General Manager Bertram Brossardt in Munich.
The companies are happy for every order, in some areas there is still short-time work;
The return to pre-crisis levels is expected in 2022 at the earliest.
The collective wages in the Bavarian metal and electrical industry have increased by 8.3 percent since 2018, the average collective wage is 63,000 euros per year.
Now the companies needed «air for urgently needed investments».
On Monday, according to IG Metall, 10,000 home office workers at Audi took part in a “warning strike at home”.
Jörg Schlagbauer, chairman of IG Metall at Audi, demanded that profits should be “taken into account in the collective bargaining agreement and not just in the dividend payments”.
Works council chief Peter Mosch said that after the employees had stood still last year, after “thanks from employers in“ Sunday speeches, deeds should also follow ”.
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IG Metall is demanding four percent more wages or, for companies in crisis, a corresponding reduction in working hours.
Employers offer a zero round in 2021, wage increases that have not yet been quantified in 2022 and also demand that they automatically move away from the collective agreement if business figures are poor.
The Bavarian collective bargaining parties adjourned after the fourth round of negotiations at the end of February.
At the fifth round of negotiations in North Rhine-Westphalia on Monday, the employer and IG Metall were still far apart.
Both sides blamed each other for the lack of progress.
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