IG Metall wants to achieve an increase in wages of seven or eight percent for the approximately four million employees in the metal and electrical industry. After all, the industry is doing better than it has in a long time – and it is also a question of justice.
SZ business editor Alexander Hagelüken considers the union’s demand to be appropriate and has a signal effect on other sectors. There have been hardly any wage increases for four years. Spread over two years, the demand is “not that high anymore”. Many companies would make good profits again after Corona. The metal and electrical industry currently has “an order backlog that is as high as it has ever been”. That’s why you can ask for good money for good work. Employers are also currently desperately looking for workers, which is why they will “have to do even more to look after their employees” in the coming years.
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