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Rudolstadt (dpa / th) - The warning strikes in the wage dispute in the metal and electrical industry in Thuringia continue.
According to the IG Metall trade union, around 70 people took part in the protest at the medical technology company Siemens Healthineers in Rudolstadt on Friday.
Over 70 percent of the workforce at the plant would have backed the union's demands.
The union demands are more than appropriate, said the chairman of the works council of Siemens Healthineers in Rudolstadt, Axel Patze.
"Our colleagues are taking the company through the pandemic with great dedication and deserving the requested pay increase."
IG Metall Gera and Jena-Saalfeld represents over 15,000 members in East Thuringia.
In the whole of Thuringia, there is a collective agreement for around 20,000 employees.
The union demands four percent more wages - where things are going badly in a company, in the form of wage compensation 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.
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For the East German collective bargaining areas, it is also about the adjustment of the weekly working hours.
The Thuringian metalworkers are currently working three hours a week longer than their West German colleagues with the same earnings.
"In Rudolstadt, the year would have to have arithmetically more than 13 months so that the workforce has the same annual income as, for example, in the Franconian sister plant Erlangen," said the union secretary of IG Metall Jena-Saalfeld, Christian Patho.
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