Frankfurt am Main – In the collective bargaining dispute in the metal and electrical industries, IG Metall has maintained high levels of pressure through a wide range of warning strike actions. By early afternoon (2:30 p.m.), approximately 95,000 workers from more than 416 companies had demonstrated in support of the demand for a 5 percent wage increase. In addition, around 61,500 employees at various Volkswagen (VW) locations took part in spontaneous actions. In Wolfsburg, 35,000 VW employees participated. In Emden, around 8,000 employees took part in a spontaneous action. In Hanover and Kassel, around 6,000 employees each participated in actions. In Braunschweig, 3,500 VW employees gathered, and in Salzgitter, 3,000 VW employees took part in a spontaneous protest. Since the end of the peace obligation, more than 700,000 employees nationwide have participated in brief work stoppages, rallies, and warning strikes. IG Metall announced on Wednesday in Frankfurt that further warning strikes were planned for the afternoon and evening.
The warning strikes were concentrated in Baden-Württemberg, where approximately 40,000 workers from 145 companies walked off the job. At Audi and various supplier companies, about 7,500 workers briefly stopped work as part of the warning strikes. Approximately 4,200 workers participated in a rally in front of the Daimler plant in Untertürkheim.
In Bavaria , around 28,000 warning strikers from more than 80 plants briefly walked off the job. Nearly 5,700 workers from 18 plants took part in a central rally in Schweinfurt. At BMW in Munich, another 5,500 workers from 17 plants gathered for a rally. At BMW in Regensburg, more than 3,500 warning strikers from 11 plants also participated in a rally.
In Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt , more than 12,500 warning strikers from 94 plants briefly walked off the job. In Osnabrück, 2,500 metalworkers from the region took part in large-scale actions. In Hanover, 2,100 workers from 21 plants participated in a central warning strike action.
In the IG Metall Mitte district, more than 10,000 metalworkers from 74 companies in Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Thuringia, and the Saarland took part in IG Metall actions. At a central rally in front of City Hall in Offenbach, Christiane Benner, Second Chair of IG Metall, addressed 1,200 warning strikers.
In the IG Metall Berlin-Brandenburg-Saxony district , nearly 2,000 workers from twelve companies heeded IG Metall’s call for a warning strike and temporarily stopped work.
In North Rhine-Westphalia , approximately 1,300 metalworkers from ten companies took part in rallies and warning strike actions.
For more information about the warning strike actions, please contact the respective IG Metall district offices.
