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Munich (dpa / lby) - While the collective bargaining parties for the metal and electrical industry in North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg are converging, the signs in Bavaria are still pointing to confrontation.
Since the beginning of March, over 210,000 employees have participated in warning strikes, said IG Metall district manager Johann Horn on Friday.
"Today's warning strike day is our last warning to employers to find a collective agreement with us by Easter that takes into account all of our demands: strengthen purchasing power, secure employment, create future prospects," said Horn.
IG Metall called on the late shifts in the BMW plants in Munich, Dingolfing, Landshut, Regensburg and Wackersdorf to quit two hours earlier.
There were also warning strikes at many automotive suppliers in Bavaria.
IG Metall is calling for around 3.8 million employees nationwide to pay four percent more wages or for companies in crisis to reduce their working hours accordingly.
The employers in Bavaria are offering a zero round for 2021 and wage increases not yet quantified in 2022. In addition, they want to be able to automatically move away from the collective agreement in the event of poor business figures.
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In North Rhine-Westphalia, after the sixth round of negotiations on Friday, IG Metall announced a further convergence in the areas of job security and future collective agreements.
However, the union rejected the offer of a one-off payment of 350 euros for this year as inadequate.
The IG Metall board will now “decide whether another attempt at a solution will be undertaken in North Rhine-Westphalia before Easter”.
As early as Wednesday, IG Metall Baden-Württemberg saw «solution corridors» there for all topics after the fifth round of negotiations.
In Bavaria, however, negotiations were postponed after the fourth round at the end of February.
Around 840,000 people work in the industry here.
The last pilot degree in Bavaria for the metal and electrical industry in Germany was in 2013.
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