Böblingen (dpa / lsw) - The collective bargaining for the approximately one million employees in the metal and electrical industry in the southwest ended on Tuesday evening without an agreement. They will continue on November 17th in Ludwigsburg in the fifth round, as reported by negotiators in Boeblingen.

With the end of the peace obligation at the end of October, there were warning strikes in which, according to IG Metall, more than 93,000 employees in Baden-Württemberg took part. On Tuesday, 25,700 people took part in protests in the southwest, the union said.

In the nationwide collective bargaining conflict, IG Metall is demanding eight percent more money for a term of twelve months. In Germany, almost four million people are employed in the industry. The employers' association Südwestmetall had - like the associations in other tariff areas - offered a one-time payment of 3000 euros and an unspecified increase in the salary scales for a period of 30 months.