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VW’s Hourly Workers in Germany Ask for 6% Pay Hike
IG Metall, Germany’s largest labor union, is demanding a 6% increase in base pay for its 120,000 Volkswagen workers in the country.
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IG Metall, Germany’s largest labor union, is demanding a 6% increase in base pay for its 120,000 Volkswagen workers in the country.
The union is seeking the same percentage boost for 3.9 million engineering and metalworking employees it represents across Germany. The current contract, which has raised pay by 4.8% over 20 months, will expire at the end of January.
IG Metall justifies its demands by pointing to 3% growth in VW brand sales worldwide so far this year. But Reuters says the company is expected to insist on a more modest increase because sales in Germany are down 7%.
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