About 200,000 workers in Germany protest amid crisis
About 200 thousand workers of industrial enterprises went on strike in Germany. Tagesschau reports with reference to IG Metall’s leader Jörg Hofmann.
The IG Metall union is demanding an eight per cent wage increase for employees, an initiative that has been widely supported by its members.
The first warning strikes took place in the German steel and electrical industry on Friday, November 4, when some 83,000 people briefly stopped work in 400 plants. These included BMW in Leipzig, Bosch in Bamberg, Ford in Cologne and the Porsche plant in Stuttgart, as well as the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg. A full-scale action was then organised.
The union representatives demanded an eight percent wage increase for Germany’s 3.8 million industrial workers over the course of the year amid rising living costs