Nuremberg (dpa / lby) - In the conflict over a new collective agreement, employees of the stationery manufacturer Faber-Castell temporarily stopped working on Tuesday. According to the IG Metall trade union, around 300 employees at the headquarters in Stein near Nuremberg took part in the warning strike for an hour. In Geroldsgrün in Upper Franconia there were around 100. Production there was largely paralyzed, said a union spokeswoman on Tuesday.
IG Metall is demanding, among other things, 7.6 percent more money for the approximately 3,000 employees in the writing and drawing implements industry over a period of 12 months. In the course of the week there should be further warning strikes at the locations of the manufacturers Schwan-Stabilo and Lyra in Middle Franconia.
Faber-Castell did not comment on the consequences of the warning strike and referred to a statement from the Writing, Drawing, Creative Design Industry Association. For employers, the union's approach of compensating for all the financial consequences of inflation solely through a wage increase is not realistic, he said. The offer from the employers was an increase of more than 5 percent in the overall package. This had been rejected by the wage commission of IG Metall.
