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Press Release No. 16/2015 IG Metall: Nearly 5,000 workers took part in warning strikes in some regions on Rose Monday

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16 February 2015 16 February 2015

Frankfurt am Main – In the collective bargaining dispute in the metal and electrical industries, IG Metall continued its warning strikes in some bargaining regions on Rose Monday as well. By Monday afternoon (2:00 p.m.), 4,500 employees from 13 companies had staged work stoppages to underscore their demands for a 5.5 percent pay increase as well as provisions for age-related and educational part-time work. Further actions are planned for the afternoon and evening. Since the start of the warning strikes and the preceding actions, more than 610,000 workers from around 2,620 companies nationwide have demonstrated in support of their demands, IG Metall announced on Monday in Frankfurt.

In Baden-Württemberg, 3,000 workers from two companies heeded IG Metall’s call. At the automaker Porsche, 2,500 metalworkers gathered in front of the company museum in Stuttgart for a rally.

In the IG Metall district of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, nearly 1,100 workers from nine companies heeded IG Metall’s call. In the Bückeburg/Stadthagen region, over 700 workers from six companies went on a brief walkout. In Halle, 180 workers at pump manufacturer KSB temporarily stopped work. Additional warning strikes took place at KSM Water GmbH in the Halberstadt region and at Winkelmann in Uelzen.

In the IG Metall district of Berlin-Brandenburg-Saxony, around 400 employees of ThyssenKrupp Presta GmbH and Elbe Flugzeugwerke participated in brief work stoppages by noon.

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