Tag: IG metal
Inflation: Federal government under pressure – further relief?
Coalition leadership with no clear direction Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck (from left), Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Finance Minister Christian Lindner. Berlin In view of rising prices, the pressure on the traffic…
Inflation: Federal government under pressure – further relief?
Coalition leadership with no clear direction Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck (from left), Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Finance Minister Christian Lindner. Berlin In view of rising prices, the pressure on the traffic…
IG Metall wants to demand seven to eight percent higher wages
Berlin The IG Metall is expected to with the demand for seven to eight percent more money will go into the forthcoming collective bargaining round for the almost 3.9 million…
IG Metall wants to demand between seven and eight percent higher wages
IG Metall boss Jörg Hofmann The trade unionist is demanding a new relief package from politicians to compensate for the high inflation rates. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The IG Metall is…
Sentiment in European companies at rock bottom
Production of Volkswagen, Bosch and Siemens Healthineers in China (from left) In a survey, 60 percent of the European companies represented in China stated that their business in the People’s…
Steelworkers get 6.5 percent more wages
Thyssen Krupp The unions have reached an agreement for steel workers. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf During the collective bargaining for the 68,000 employees in the north-west German steel industry, IG Metall…
International corporations are investing in East Germany – is the region now experiencing an upswing?
Tesla factory Cars from East Germany: Tesla models roll off the production line every day in the Gigafactory in Grünheide. (Photo: Bloomberg) Berlin, Gruenheide, Dusseldorf The job advertisement reads like…
How Europe is experimenting with a tax on crisis profits
London, Rome, Athens, Vienna, Brussels, Madrid “Skim off crisis profits – cap costs!” If IG Metall has its way, the so-called excess profit tax on random profits from dominant energy…
How Europe is experimenting with a tax on crisis profits
London, Rome, Athens, Vienna, Brussels, Madrid “Skim off crisis profits – cap costs!” If IG Metall has its way, the so-called excess profit tax on random profits from dominant energy…
IG Metall announces new warning strikes in the Steel Northwest wage dispute
warning strike The employers submitted a new offer on Friday. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf, Bremen, Salzgitter In the wage dispute in the north-west German iron and steel industry, IG Metall wants…
Volker Wissing stops the project of his CSU predecessor
Berlin If the Ministry of Transport was occupied by a CSU politician, a large sum of tax money from the federal coffers often ended up in their Bavarian homeland. It…
Largest transmission plant in Saarland is to become electric
ZF is on the way to becoming an electrical supplier ZF CEO Wolf-Henning Scheider: Germany’s large transmission specialist must switch to electromobility. (Photo: Reuters) Bochum The southern German automotive supplier…
Germany has too few workers – shortage is heading for record levels
Programming of robots (Photo: picture alliance/dpa/dpa-Zentralbild) Berlin Axel Gedaschko worries when he looks at the baby boomer generation that is about to retire. This gap alone needs to be filled…
Lack of staff jeopardizes housing and climate goals
Berlin The expectations of the construction industry are huge: the federal government wants to have 400,000 new apartments built every year – also to curb the rise in rents. Added…
Traton HR director Osterloh: The integrator of the truck brands
Dusseldorf Just over a year ago, not a week went by in which Bernd Osterloh didn’t make headlines in connection with Volkswagen. A new dispute with CEO Herbert Diess, a…
Inflation: early warning system I index at record high
Berlin The record inflation rates may not be over yet. The I-Index, an early warning system for consumer price developments based on media articles, has reached an all-time high. In…
Vallourec wants to close German plants – 2400 affected
Nozzle production at Vallourec and Mannesmann The production of seamless steel tubes in Germany is no longer feasible for Vallourec for economic reasons. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf, Muehlheim The French steel…
Thyssen-Krupp’s difficult way to spin off the steel division
Workers at the blast furnace of the Thyssen-Krupp steelworks in Duisburg The steel industry is facing multi-billion dollar investments due to the pressure to reduce its carbon emissions. (Photo: imago…
Würth boss Robert Friedmann is in demand as a diplomat
Stuttgart For more than 17 years, Robert Friedmann has managed the Würth Group, the world market leader in assembly technology. In the shadow of the powerful company patriarch Reinhold Würth,…
A quick sale of the powertrain division is not to be expected
Siemens In financial circles it is assumed that Siemens could commission a bank with the sales process in the second half of the year. (Photo: via REUTERS) Munich, Frankfurt Despite…