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Potsdam (dpa / bb) - In the metal wage conflict, the IG Metall union called for further warning strikes for higher wages this Sunday in Saxony.
In order to provide the best possible protection for employees in Corona times, only smaller rallies and actions should take place in front of the factory gates, as the union announced.
Already on Friday, many of the conveyor belts were at a standstill - a total of 15,500 employees in Saxony and Brandenburg took part in the warning strike campaigns. In Saxony it was the metalworkers from the two Volkswagen plants in Zwickau and Dresden, from GKN Driveline in Zwickau, SAS Automotive in Meerane, Innomotive Systems in Hainichen and Thyssenkrupp Presta in Chemnitz. Warning strikes also took place at Siemens WKC in Chemnitz and at the Volkswagen factory. In Brandenburg, the employees at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Ludwigsfelde and at ZF Getriebe in Brandenburg were on strike.
IG Metall is calling for four percent more wages or job security.
It is also about future collective agreements to shape the transformation, and collectively improved takeover rules for trained people.
In addition, IG Metall in the Berlin-Brandenburg-Saxony district is demanding a collective adjustment allowance for the roughly 290,000 employees (110,000 in Berlin-Brandenburg and 180,000 in Saxony) because of the unequal pay of employees in East and West.
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In the nationwide collective bargaining in the industry, there had already been a pilot deal in North Rhine-Westphalia at the end of March.
In Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony, however, there are further demands from IG Metall for the harmonization of working conditions in the East German federal states to the level in the West.
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