IG Metall wants a lot of opinions – at the wrong time

Seven to eight percent: This is the demand of the world’s largest trade union, IG Metall, for the four million industrial workers in Germany. Eight percent – that’s steep, not even the trade unionists themselves dispute it. Even if a demand is not yet a conclusion, but only the beginning of tough haggling in the fall, the most important wage round in the inflation year 2022 begins with a bang.