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Süddeutsche Zeitung9 minutes agoLabor1 min readGermanyView original

Industry: “Now we are shutting down operations around the clock”

First use of the strongest trade union instrument since 2018 in the current collective bargaining round for the automotive and mechanical engineering industries

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  • IG Metall is resorting to all-day strikes in German industry for the first time since 2018.
  • Companies in Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony are to be shut down around the clock.

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IG Metall conducts collective bargaining for the automotive, mechanical engineering and other industrial sectors.

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The tool remained in the closet for many years, but now IG Metall is using one of its sharpest instruments - for the first time since 2018.

The union wants to paralyze companies with strikes that last all day, significantly longer than previous actions in this year's collective bargaining round for auto, mechanical engineering and other key areas of German industry.

“We are now shutting down operations around the clock,” announced Jan Otto, negotiator for Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony.

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  • Which companies are specifically on strike?
  • How long will the all-day strikes last?

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This article was originally published by Süddeutsche Zeitung.

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