Frankfurt am Main – Since the end of the peace obligation, more than 165,000 workers from nearly 800 companies nationwide have participated in warning strikes in the metal and electrical industries. Numerous warning strikes and early-closing actions also took place on Friday afternoon and over the weekend. At the start of the week (as of Monday, 2:00 p.m.), approximately 22,000 metalworkers from around 120 companies emphasized their demand for a 5.5 percent pay increase as well as provisions for age-based and educational part-time work, IG Metall announced on Monday in Frankfurt. Further warning strike actions are planned for this afternoon.
Today’s warning strikes were concentrated in the IG Metall districts of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, and Berlin-Brandenburg-Saxony, with 5,000 strikers in each.
In Baden-Württemberg, around 5,000 workers from 29 companies took part in warning strike actions. In Mannheim-Lindenhof, 700 employees of the agricultural machinery manufacturer John Deere gathered in the morning. In Heidenheim, around 2,500 metalworkers from various Voith divisions participated in a rally. Additional warning strikes took place in Albstadt, Freiburg, and Offenburg, among other locations.
In Bavaria, nearly 5,000 workers from nine plants took part in warning strikes. In Bamberg, 2,500 workers briefly walked off the job in the morning. In Augsburg, 1,400 employees of Premium Aerotec joined the strike, and in Amberg, 470 metalworkers heeded IG Metall’s call.
In the IG Metall Berlin-Brandenburg-Saxony district, approximately 5,000 metalworkers from 20 companies took part in warning strikes. In Berlin, 1,500 workers from companies including Siemens, Atos IT Solutions Service GmbH, the BMW plant in Berlin, Osram, BSH GmbH, and TACR GmbH gathered for a rally. In Saxony, 1,500 metalworkers went on strike at the BMW plant in Leipzig. Additional warning strikes took place in Wustermark, Brandenburg, at Mahle Ventiltrieb Brandenburg GmbH.
In North Rhine-Westphalia, approximately 3,500 workers from 25 companies walked off the job. Warning strikes took place in Aachen, Bielefeld, Bocholt, Neuss, Cologne, Krefeld, Altena, Münster, Warendorf, Witten, and Anolt, among other locations.
In the IG Metall Central District, around 2,000 workers from 18 plants heeded IG Metall’s call. In Hesse, workers from Kassel, Eschwege, and Bebra, as well as Darmstadt, Offenbach, and Wölfersheim, participated. In Rhineland-Palatinate, metalworkers from Ludwigshafen, Bad Kreuznach, Koblenz, Trier, and Kaiserslautern briefly stopped work.
In Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, 830 workers from nine plants heeded IG Metall’s call. In Saxony-Anhalt, 110 workers at KSM in Halberstadt and 250 employees of ThyssenKruppPresta in Magdeburg-Schöneck took part in warning strikes. Additional walkouts took place at the IG Metall administrative offices in Alfeld-Hameln-Hildesheim, as well as in Salzgitter-Peine and Rheine.
In the IG Metall “Küste” district, 250 employees from six plants walked off the job. In Emden, 60 employees at ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems heeded IG Metall’s call. Additional warning strikes took place in Emden at Nordseewerke GmbH and Emder Werft- und Dockbetriebe, as well as in Wilhelmshaven and Rastede.
