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German union to rule Tuesday on all-out strike
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 05 - 11 - 2008


On the fifth day of rolling strikes in Germany's
most important factories, the IG Metall trade union said it would
rule next Tuesday on whether to escalate the wage battle into an
all-out strike, according to dpa.
An Opel car plant owned by General Motors west of Frankfurt was
idled on Wednesday for hours as 6,000 workers attended a rally
outside the gates to support IG Metall's demand for an 8-per-cent pay
hike.
Stoppages, being held in relays round the country, hit many other
auto industry plants. Each day, the union aims to raise the pressure,
but a strike in all plants at the same time has not begun yet.
A total of 162,000 workers had stopped work on Tuesday, IG Metall
said at day's end, but offered no Wednesday tally.
The union has rejected an offer of 2.1 per cent more pay for 3.6
million industry workers, accusing the employers of "utter cheek."
The timing of the union's next move is constrained by German
labour law. Metal-products and electrical-goods employers will have
till Tuesday to persuade the union to accept a pay offer.
Berthold Huber, the union leader, said that the union leadership
would meet immediately after the scheduled pay bargaining meeting
with employers on Tuesday and decide whether or not to launch an
all-out, open-ended strike.
"Either there'll be a deal or there'll be a labour struggle," he
told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
"I am not dead set on a strike. We just want a fair and
sustainable settlement," he said, rejecting the employers' offer as
less than the rate of inflation.
But addressing 6,000 union members outside a Volkswagen-owned Audi
plant at Neckarsulm, north of Stuttgart, he said, "We are all ready
to strike."
He did not say when a strike might begin, but told the crowd the
legally required poll among members on whether to hold an all-out
strike could be carried out in just two or three days.


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