Tag: Jörg Hofmann
IG Metall does not see a four-day week as a priority
IG Metall The first round of negotiations is planned for mid-November. (Photo: IMAGO/Michael Gstettenbauer) Frankfurt am Main IG Metall wants to take the competitiveness of the German metal and electrical…
IG Metall does not see a four-day week as a priority
IG Metall The first round of negotiations is planned for mid-November. (Photo: IMAGO/Michael Gstettenbauer) Frankfurt am Main IG Metall wants to take the competitiveness of the German metal and electrical…
Christiane Benner is to become chairwoman of IG Metall
Berlin When International Women’s Day was celebrated for the 100th time in 2011, Christiane Benner also gave a speech: “I’d like to have more female role models,” said the then…
Christiane Benner nominated as Chair of IG Metall
Christiane Benner The executive board of IG Metall is to be reduced to five members under Christiane Benner. (Photo: dpa) Munich The IG Metall union is to be led by…
VW sees no problems in the controversial China plant
Dusseldorf, Beijing, Berlin Volkswagen’s China boss Ralf Brandstätter has visited the group’s controversial plant in Urumchi. The city is located in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang, where international reports…
Who will be the new boss? Two aspirants for the chief post
Berlin At IG Metall, a generational change is imminent this year: at the trade union conference in October, a decision will be made on the successor to the first chairman,…
Confidence is growing in HR departments
construction worker Experts anticipate that companies will continue to be more willing to hire in the near future. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The German economy is regaining its confidence, which is…
IG Metall boss Jörg Hofmann announces strikes
Berlin In the metal and electrical industry there will be the first warning strikes from Saturday. The offer, which the employers presented on Thursday in the collective bargaining round for…
Partly double-digit collective bargaining demands – is there a threat of a wage-price spiral?
Berlin IG Metall is demanding eight percent more money in the metal and electrical industry, 10.5 percent are demanded by Verdi and the civil service association for the public sector.…
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…
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…
Yasmin Fahimi is the first woman to head the DGB
New DGB Chair Yasmin Fahimi The 54-year-old thanked the delegates for their willingness “to want to break new ground with me”. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Yasmin Fahimi is the first woman…
War in Ukraine creates uncertainty in the steel industry
Steel worker at Thyssen-Krupp Employers in the metal and electrical industry have warned of a possible energy and raw material embargo on Russian oil and gas. (Photo: Reuters) Dusseldorf The…
IG Metall boss Jörg Hofmann doesn’t believe in the oil and gas embargo
IG Metall boss Jörg Hofmann “It’s clear that we have to diversify our energy imports more, but that won’t happen overnight.” (Photo: imago/photothek) Berlin In the opinion of IG Metall…
Woidke sees a signal effect for other investors
Berlin When Elon Musk announced the first European Tesla factory in Grünheide near Berlin on November 12, 2019, there were still many pine trees in the Brandenburg sand. Just over…
IG Metall boss Jörg Hofmann threatens VW boss Herbert Diess
IG Metall boss Hoffmann Even after the settled dispute with the VW group management, the unionist flexed his muscles. Frankfurt After the management crisis at Volkswagen was resolved, IG Metall…
How Herbert Diess triggered the leadership crisis at VW
Herbert Diess Support for the VW boss on the supervisory board is waning. (Photo: AFP / Getty Images) Wolfsburg, Düsseldorf Suddenly the supervisory board even wants Martin Winterkorn back. That…
Dispute over Herbert Diess blocked VW
Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess How things will go with him in Wolfsburg is not clear at the moment. (Photo: dpa) Düsseldorf, Berlin Leading supervisory boards of Volkswagen discussed the…
Works council boss Cavallo attacks CEO Diess
Herbert Diess and Elon Musk The Tesla boss recently joined a VW management conference from his new headquarters in Texas. (Photo: VW) Wolfsburg Herbert Diess actually didn’t want to be…