After the trade unions handed over their demands, employer and employee representatives from the metal industry met for the first round of negotiations. The unions are demanding a 4.5% pay rise, the same as in the 2019 bargaining round. At that time an agreement about a pay rise between 2.6% and 2.8% was reached.
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