Press Release No. 13/2018 IG Metall: 20,000 workers on warning strike at the start of the week

Frankfurt am Main – At the start of the week, IG Metall continued its warning strikes in the metal and electrical industries. By Monday afternoon (2 p.m.), approximately 20,000 workers from nearly 120 companies had participated in brief work stoppages, rallies, and early-closing actions. Since the end of the peace obligation, 626,000 workers nationwide have already participated in the warning strikes. Further actions are planned for the afternoon and evening, IG Metall announced.

The warning strikes were concentrated in North Rhine-Westphalia. There, nearly 7,000 workers from 42 companies heeded IG Metall’s call. In Cologne, more than 1,200 warning strikers gathered for a rally in front of the Deutz AG factory gate. In Solingen, 800 workers from 19 companies briefly walked off the job and gathered for a joint rally.

626,000 on warning strike

In Baden-Württemberg, over 5,000 warning strikers from 29 plants briefly walked off the job. At Porsche in Zuffenhausen, 3,500 workers heeded the call from IG Metall. In Ulm, nearly 1,200 metalworkers from Magirus-Iveco, Deutz, and other plants in the region took part in a joint rally.

In Bavaria, over 3,700 workers from 24 companies took part in the warning strikes. The focus of the actions was in the Allgäu region, where 500 metalworkers at Robert Bosch in Seifen walked off the job at short notice, and 450 workers went on a warning strike at Liebherr Aerospace in Lindenberg. At BMW in Dingolfing, 400 apprentices briefly walked off the job.

In Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, around 2,600 metalworkers from 8 plants gathered for a joint rally in Osnabrück.

In the IG Metall Central District (Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, and Thuringia), nearly 1,000 employees from 8 plants briefly walked off the job.

In the IG Metall Berlin-Brandenburg-Saxony district, over 800 workers from 6 plants briefly went on a warning strike. In Chemnitz, around 500 workers from 3 plants gathered in front of the Volkswagen Sachsen Motoren plant for a joint rally.