Munich (dpa / lby) - IG Metall is expanding its warning strikes and has called for 15,000 employees to a collective bargaining rally in front of the Audi headquarters in Ingolstadt today. Employees of the car manufacturer, Airbus and all other companies in the metal and electrical industry in the Ingolstadt area should take part. The union announced on Monday evening that the Bavarian IG Metall district chief, Johann Horn, would speak to them from 11:00 a.m.
In Frankfurt am Main, the IG Metall board of directors discussed how to proceed in the nationwide wage conflict on Monday evening. The union is demanding eight percent more wages for a contract period of twelve months. Employers have offered a one-off payment of 3,000 euros net for a period of 30 months, as well as an unspecified increase in the wage tables.
After four unsuccessful rounds of negotiations, all eyes are now on Baden-Württemberg. There, the collective bargaining parties have offered to look for a way to a pilot degree. They want to meet on Thursday for their fifth round of negotiations.
Until then, further major warning strikes are to be expected. Horn had already announced: "From Tuesday, a massive second wave of warning strikes will roll over Bavarian companies." In Bavaria, around 855,000 people work in the metal and electrical industry, nationwide there are almost four million.
