The focus of Thursday’s warning strikes was in Baden-Württemberg. There, by noon ( , 2 p.m.), approximately 26,500 workers from 50 companies briefly walked off the job. Overnight, 2,100 workers at EvoBus in Ulm and 500 workers at Daimler Sindelfingen went on strike. The largest rally took place at Daimler Sindelfingen, with over 9,000 warning strikers. In Zuffenhausen, 3,000 workers at sports car manufacturer Porsche gathered in front of the factory gates.
In the IG Metall Central District, over 7,300 workers from 15 plants in Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Thuringia participated in work stoppages. At Mercedes-Benz in Wörth, 3,500 workers walked off the job. In Lollar, around 1,000 workers from various locations gathered for a solidarity rally. Additional warning strikes also took place in Jena, Gustavsburg, Neustadt, Trier, Speyer , and Kassel.
, the IG Metall Berlin-Brandenburg-Saxony district, 6,000 metalworkers from eight plants heeded IG Metall’s call to strike. In Berlin, 150 early-shift employees at Proctor & Gamble went on strike. In Zwickau, employees from Volkswagen Sachsen, GKN Driveline, SAS Autosystemtechnik, and Sumitomo Electric Bordnetze gathered in front of the VW campus in Mosel.
In Bavaria , 2,500 employees from 13 plants heeded IG Metall’s call. In Passau, nearly 1,400 employees from several Zahnradfabrik plants took part in warning strikes. In Amberg, over 400 employees of Grammer went on strike.
In Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, approximately 2,300 employees from ten plants took part in warning strikes. At Volkswagen Osnabrück, 1,200 employees stopped work for about an hour and gathered in front of the plant gates. In Halle, 160 employees at the pump manufacturer KSB AG heeded IG Metall’s call.
In North Rhine-Westphalia, 1,000 employees at the Daimler Sprinter plant in Düsseldorf participated in a three-and-a-half-hour warning strike this morning.
In the IG Metall “Küste” district, 300 employees from three companies—Jadewerft, Turbo Technik, and Manitowoc—in Wilhelmshaven went on a brief walkout.
After the peace obligation expired , around 2,000 employees had already participated in warning strike actions during the night leading up to May 1. At the Paderborn-based automotive supplier Benteler, nearly 400 night-shift employees walked off the job. In Bramsche, Lower Saxony, employees of Essex and Nexans went on a warning strike. In Augsburg, employees at Osram and MAN took part in warning strikes; in Munich, employees at Epcos did the same; and in Trabitz, Upper Franconia, employees at Faurecia Abgastechnik also participated in warning strikes. At the Rhineland-Palatinate tinplate manufacturer ThyssenKrupp Rasselstein in Andernach and at the automotive supplier Norma in Hanau, night-shift workers also walked off the job.
