German union prepare to fight cuts

[Charlotte Kates <ckates@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 21:28:13 -0500
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>From: Scott Marshall <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: German union prepare to fight cuts
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>German engineering union IG
>Metall said on Tuesday it would launch a wave of protest action
>against the government's controversial plans to cut public
>spending and sick pay which will lead to stoppages next week
>across Germany.
>        IG Metall chairman Klaus Zwickel said the demonstrations
>would begin on May 20 and last for three days. He said the
>protest wave would be followed between May 31 and June 14 by
>regional demonstrations, marches and protests in major cities.
>        ``The government's plans are a plot against Germany's
>unemployed,'' Zwickel told a news conference.
>        He said the government's savings plan, which aims to save 25
>billion marks next year, showed the government was no longer
>interested in the ``Alliance for Jobs''. He accused employers and
>the government of not taking seriously the jobs pact, which aims
>to halve unemployment by the year 2000.
>        Zwickel accused Chancellor Helmut Kohl of reversing
>government policy from co-operation to confrontation and said
>the government was intent on changing Germany's social system,
>not just making savings.
>        He said the union had asked its Stuttgart regional office to
>clarify by next week whether Baden-Wuerttemberg's engineering
>industry employers were prepared to make any compromises on jobs
>and unemployment as the Alliance for Jobs intends.
>        ``If the answer is no, then talks on the Alliance for Jobs in
>the region are over,'' Zwickel said.
>
>
>

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