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PRESS RELEASE NO. 05/2021 Warning strike kicks off with 60,000 metalworkers

Focus on Lower Saxony/Saxony-Anhalt with 22,300 employees +++ About 80,000 people watched the live stream of the start of collective bargaining on March 1

IG Metall, Mainforum, Gebäude, Fahnen
Foto: IG Metall

2 March 2021 2 March 2021

Frankfurt am Main ― In the collective bargaining dispute in the metal and electrical industries, IG Metall has launched the warning strike phase with strong participation from workers. Nearly 60,000 workers took part in warning strikes today (as of 2:00 p.m.). In doing so, they underscored their collective bargaining demands and protested the employers’ inadequate offer.

On Tuesday, the warning strikes were concentrated in the Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt district . There, approximately 22,300 workers from 28 companies briefly walked off the job.

About 14,500 workers from 68 companies in the Central District (Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Thuringia, Saarland) briefly went on strike. At ZF Friedrichshafen in Saarbrücken alone, 4,000 metalworkers participated.

In the Bavaria district, just under 9,000 workers from 24 plants briefly walked off the job. In Schweinfurt alone, 4,160 workers took part in the warning strike during the night and day shifts at ZF, SKF, Schaeffler, Bosch Rexroth, ZF Aftermarket, and ZF Race Engineering.

More than 6,500 workers went on a warning strike in the IG Metall Baden-Württemberg district. Among the various actions was, for example, a demonstration march at the automotive supplier Mahle Behr in Stuttgart with 650 participants.

In the IG Metall “Küste” district, nearly 2,600 metalworkers from 12 plants heeded the union’s call for a warning strike. The largest warning strike here took place at Daimler and the supplier Lear in Bremen, with 2,100 employees participating.

In the North Rhine-Westphalia district, more than 3,800 workers participated, while in the Berlin-Brandenburg-Saxony district , over 700 colleagues took part .

There had already been numerous actions and rallies throughout the day on Monday. During “Tarifauftakt-Live,” a two-hour live webcast on Monday evening, 80,000 metalworkers prepared for the end of the peace obligation. The peace obligation ended at midnight on Monday.

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Silke Ernst

+4969 6693 2970

+49151 162 39429

Silke.Ernst@igmetall.de

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