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Germany: IG Metall demands 8% pay rise

The national executive of the IG Metall metalworkers’ trade union decided on 23 September 2008 to pursue a pay rise of 8% in forthcoming regional wage negotiations for the 3.6 million employees in the engineering and electrical industry.

The current metalworking agreement expired at the end of October 2008.