Erfurt (dpa/th) - Thuringia's metal employers see the companies burdened by high prices for energy and supplies. They could only afford a moderate burden through tariff increases, said the head of the Thuringian metal and electrical industry association, Thomas Kaeser, on Tuesday in Erfurt. Recommendations by the board of directors of IG Metall to go into the collective bargaining round with demands of seven to eight percent are unrealistic.
The metal and electrical industry in Thuringia is a heavyweight among the industrial wastelands with several tens of thousands of employees, but only some of them work in companies bound by collective agreements.
