Posted on 08/16/2020 7:23:16 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Germany’s largest trade union IG Metall proposed a four-day working week ahead of the next round of collective bargaining talks due to begin next year, reported German media on Saturday.
The shorter week would be “the answer to structural changes in sectors such as the automotive industry,” said union chair Jörg Hoffman to German national newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
“With this, jobs in the industry can be kept instead of being written off,” added Hoffman.
Germany’s automotive industry — one of the mainstays of the country’s economy —is undergoing a major transformation to e-mobility, spurred by concerns over climate change as well as increasing automation and digitalization. The sector was also hit by the pandemic-induced financial crisis, although it is showing signs of recovery.
IG Metall, which represents workers from major carmakers such as Audi, BMW and Porsche, is Europe’s largest industrial union. Analysts consider it a major national trendsetter in bargaining. …
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So, why not a one day week? Look at all the jobs you would save/create!/s
A corresponding cut in pay. Why not? Everyone’s a little poorer and we can all do our own cooking and have more time. Not waste time on unnecessary stuff. Travel is already cut out, so is attending football games. BTW I do enjoy my few friends. Everyone else can go to hell. Works better that way.
More free time to riot.
At 5-day rate. How about cutting union dues?
im sure people will love taking a 20% pay cut to save someone “else’s” job.
ROFL
They should jyst merge with France.
The unions won’t go for pay cuts, so it will cost more to run a business.
I always thought the best way to save jobs is to go onto a 24/7 opening, banks and stores all open 24 7 providing jobs
I thought Europe had to import third worlders because there wereen’t enough workers.
Yeah, nothing like an artificially imposed constraint on production and/or productivity to *really* create more jobs. /sarc
No word about if pay would be cut proportionally to 4/5 of what it was.
Whereas, I’d be willing to put in more hours in exchange for a corresponding increase in compensation.
If they have to compete with the rest of the world, they lose.
If they want to sell to smaller markets to protect their workers, have at it.
The reason that Trump's tariffs work is because our market is so large.
America can pay higher prices to support American workers, and we know that it is a reasoned, logical, individual decision.
If Americans choose to not pay higher prices for American made products, we will devolve into a totally consumer/service economy and will be 100% dependent on other countries, which will END our Nation.
"A Republic, if you can {want to} keep it", so said Ben Franklin.
No o.t. pay for the first 160 hours/mo. Put it in at a mutually agreeable time.
False dilemma. There is no need to pay more for US-made goods if the regulatory barriers erected by the unelected and unconstitutional federal bureaucracy (aka the deep state) are removed.
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