“With the active pension, the federal government is making expensive tax gifts. This hardly brings any additional employment, but rather produces deadweight effects and will cause serious damage to tax fairness. If you want to see more older people working, you first have to create better working conditions. The right thing to do is to… Continue reading Fair restructuring instead of tax breaks
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Counteract social divisions with culture and education
Frankfurt am Main – IG Metall and Büchergilde Gutenberg are expanding their long-standing partnership and will work even more closely together in the future. The focus of the cooperation is on joint projects in the areas of education, democracy promotion and cultural participation. Future collaboration is also planned with the Otto Brenner Foundation, the science… Continue reading Counteract social divisions with culture and education
Private pension provision places a one-sided burden on employees
IG Metall’s social director Hans-Jürgen Urban comments on the interim report of the federal-state working group “Future Pact for Care”. October 14, 202514. 10. 2025 “This urgently needs to be reworked. What is on the table so far does not solve any of the existing structural problems. The proposal for mandatory private pension provision leads… Continue reading Private pension provision places a one-sided burden on employees
IG Metall on the Autodialogue: Politics must now go on the offensive
Christiane Benner, First Chairwoman of IG Metall on today’s auto dialogue in the Chancellery: “Today we reached a common understanding and made agreements. It was important that politicians listened, especially to the works councils, who made their concerns about local employment very clear. This summit sends a clear message: We want and need a strong,… Continue reading IG Metall on the Autodialogue: Politics must now go on the offensive
EU wants to tighten Stahl-Zölle: Signs for unfair trade-good news for employees
Frankfurt am Main-The EU Commission today presented stricter trade protection instruments to support the European steel industry. IG Metall welcomes the plans as a big step in the right direction. In order to secure the jobs sustainably, in addition to a robust trade policy, additional industrial policy impulses are needed, the union warns. “With the… Continue reading EU wants to tighten Stahl-Zölle: Signs for unfair trade-good news for employees
Better working conditions instead of higher age limits!
+++ The expert opinion and the demand for a pension linked to life expectancy with 70+ of the “Scientific Counseling Circle” by Federal Minister of Economics Katherina Reich comments commented on IG Metall-Social Director Hans-Jürgen Urban +++ October 6, 20256. 10. 2025 “Germany is not Denmark. Comparisons of different social and solidarity systems inevitably lag.… Continue reading Better working conditions instead of higher age limits!
Motor vehicle tax exemption for e-cars: important signal, but not sufficient
“Federal Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil has today made it clear that the vehicle tax exemption for electric cars should be extended by 2035. This is a good, albeit long overdue signal-but it is not enough to stabilize the automotive industry and to secure jobs in the industry. The Federal Government must now take all the… Continue reading Motor vehicle tax exemption for e-cars: important signal, but not sufficient
Steel tariff cleaning: Income and employment secured
Nadine Boguslawski, IG Metall tariff: “It was hard negotiations, but in the end the tariff system worked. We took responsibility and proved that collective agreements can master crises. We have achieved our goal as an IG Metall: income, employment and specialists are solidly secured. Collective bargaining can only be a component for a sustainable steel… Continue reading Steel tariff cleaning: Income and employment secured
Electricity costs: IG metal and total metal require relief
Berlin/Frankfurt. Total metal and IG Metall call for the immediate introduction of an industrial current price to end structural disadvantage at the Germany location. Both emphasize the urgency for the metal and electrical industry. Dr. Stefan Wolf, President of the Total Metal employers’ association: “There are many steps to take a competitive location on the… Continue reading Electricity costs: IG metal and total metal require relief
IG Metall calls for new realism in industrial and trade policy
Berlin- In view of the loss of tens of thousands of jobs in Germany, IG Metall is calling for a new realism in questions of industrial and trade policy. “The world of the regular -based trade regulations has been imploded. The USA and China have said goodbye to the fair competition,” said the first chairwoman… Continue reading IG Metall calls for new realism in industrial and trade policy