Mass suicide: strikes in eastern Germany

Article Abstract:

IG Metall has called for strike votes in Eastern Germany's engineering and steel sectors in response to abrogations of agreements to boost wages by more than 20%. The union feels that its .75 million East German members will reject the employers' claim that wage increases in a recession are unsupportable.

Planning, Engineering services, Engineering firms, Steel industry, Industriegewerkschaft Metall fur die Bundesrepublik Deutschland

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A new era for Germany

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The German government coalition of Helmut Kohl suffered the two shocks at the worst possible time for Kohl's leadership. He was determined to tackle the country's dire fiscal problems, but now must replace Genscher and repair his coalition, while negotiating Germany's first public strike in 20 years.

Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Biography, Public employees, Government employees, Genscher, Hans-Dietrich

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The German wage war

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The strike among steel and engineering workers in eastern Germany is expanding, yet there remains hope for a compromise. Employers reneged on a contract to reach a east-west wage-parity goal by 1994, claiming crippling costs; workers want them to honor the contract.

Strikes, Iron and steel workers

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