Trade union IG Metall adopted its demands for the next bargaining round starting mid-December and covering more than 3.8 million employees in the metal and electrical industry. The demands include a volume of 4%, which can be used to strengthen wages and training allowances and to finance measures to safeguard jobs. The duration should be twelve months. Further topics are the improvement of the quality of training and the permanent hiring of apprentices and of workers in the dual training system.
Read on: in German ...
For more information, please contact Paul de Beer or Oana Ciuca or Sjaak van der Velden, De Burcht (Scientific Bureau for the Dutch Trade Union Movement) p.t.debeer@uva.nl or the Head of communications at the ETUI, Mehmet Koksal mkoksal@etui.org.
For previous full issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter or consult the archive with all articles in our database at www.cbnarchive.eu.
You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org.