Erfurt (dpa/th) - In the dispute over citizen income, Thuringia's left-wing parliamentary group leader Steffen Dittes has called on the CDU parliamentary group in the opposition to launch a joint initiative for higher wages. According to his parliamentary group, Dittes wrote to the CDU parliamentary group leader Mario Voigt that he wanted to make the CDU responsible if they emphasized the principle that work must pay off in their criticism of citizen income.
It is necessary for more companies in Thuringia to be subject to collective agreements. It is also about an appropriate inflation compensation for the statutory minimum wage as the lowest line of security. Voigt expressed his disapproval. "The hammer of the left is called 'more state'," said the CDU politician. "Government enacting higher wages creates more problems than it solves."
