For around one million metal workers in the southwest, it is currently about money. Collective bargaining is now entering the second round - but the ideas are still far apart.
Kornwestheim (dpa/lsw) - There is no quick agreement in sight in the collective bargaining talks for the almost one million employees in the metal and electrical industry in the south-west. Before today's second round of negotiations in Kornwestheim, the ideas of the employers' association Südwestmetall and the trade union IG Metall were still far apart.
IG Metall is demanding a wage increase of eight percent over a period of twelve months. The employer side had recently emphasized that the scope for an increase in the table wages was "actually zero".
Südwestmetall did not submit a concrete offer in the first round in mid-September. In other districts, the second round of negotiations has started in the past few days - the employers had not put any numbers on the table there either.
The peace obligation ends on October 28th, and from October 29th IG Metall can then call for warning strikes. It is unclear whether there will be a hearing date before then.
