In the fifth round of negotiations, employers and workers have agreed on a new collective agreement for the metalworking industry. Starting from November 2019 a wage increase by 2.7% is foreseen for the approximately 130,000 employees in the industry. This is somewhere between the 4.5% demanded by the union and the 1.8% offered by the employers.
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