Frankfurt am Main – The IG Metall welcomes that Central claims of IG Metall were accepted in the coalition agreement of the CDU/CSU and SPD presented yesterday and urges quick implementation.
Christiane Benner, first chairwoman of IG Metall, on the automotive industry: “In view of the global political and economic situation, it is good and important that the coalition negotiations have been led quickly and brought to the conclusion. The focus on industry is sharp. Our colleagues need a clear timetable that the coalition agreement offers in many places: urgently needed measures to promote electromobility as the liberation Motor vehicle tax, special depreciation and the expansion of the charging infrastructure are included.
The first chairman of the project also commented on the participation: “Co-determination should be expanded, the further development of the minimum wage, the adherence to a new Bundestarifery law and the announcement of a digital access right for unions are further success. The possibility of online works council elections should be created.”
Jürgen Kerner, second chairman of IG Metall, on the industrial policy projects: “Central industrial policy demands of IG Metall now describes the coalition agreement as a project. This is an important step. An industrial current price for energy -intensive companies and further measures for competitive energy costs are essential. Our long -term demand, the allocation of government funding to social and ecological criteria Contribution and CO2 emissions can be found in the coalition agreement. Invest and secure the company. “
The union manager Christiane Benner’s project for citizenship and migration is negatively evaluating: “We are critical of the plans for a new basic security for job seekers, the measures described are a step backwards, not a step backwards. It is socially and economically important that specialists from abroad should be made possible through easier procedures and language courses in Germany. Result of the destructive migration debates of the past few months. “
Social policy: It is also positive that the coalition agreement does not contain a deterioration in pension, health and care. The pension level is to be secured at 48 percent by 2031, which remains the tidal -free pension after 45 years of insurance. However, a pension commission should check a ‘new parameter’ for all columns of retirement provision in the near future. Here the IG Metall will continue to put intensive pressure together with the other DGB unions. The same applies to the use in the planned commissions that should advise on the necessary reforms of health and long-term care insurance.
The new basic security for job seekers is a return to the sanction logic of the Hartz IV system. Promotional priority, punishments, deprivation of performance are a step backwards, not a departure. Planned abolition of the maternity period for assets and the coupling of the protective assets to life performance is particularly serious.
Economic and tax policy: The coalition agreement promises important incentives for more consumption and investments- but these are sometimes too late, too vague or not targeted enough. The reduction in electricity prices and income tax for small and medium -sized incomes will bring relief for many households in Germany. However, the relief in income tax should only come in the middle of the legislative period – and it is also open to what form and to what extent. Instead of an investment bonus, there is only a degressive depreciation for equipment investments in the first three years. However, this only shifts the tax burden backwards. From 2028, corporation tax is to be reduced by one percentage point every year. Such corporation tax cuts burden households and have not necessarily increased private investments in the past.
There is no agreement on larger steps for a fairer financing such as a wealth tax or a reform of inheritance tax. Individual measures promise at least a little more justice here. For example, the gap between child allowance and child benefit should be ‘reduced’ and single parents should benefit more from child benefit. It is important from a distribution perspective that the solidarity surcharge is preserved. And also to promote union members more tax is a good approach.
It is still open whether the large -scale projects actually bring relief to reduce bureaucracy or serve as a guise of deregulation. Here we will campaign when it comes to implementing the projects!
Working hours: The future government parties have also agreed on things that are not justifiable from the IG Metall’s point of view, especially the drilling of the daily maximum daily period. As with the topic of over -working surcharges, which are to be put tax -free, it is also intended here that there should be a dialogue with the social partners. IG Metall wants and will use this design freedom. The union will work here!
The challenges are huge, a government -capable government of the greatest importance. With the coalition agreement, important prerequisites for the preservation of good industrial workplaces in Germany are created. The important projects to strengthen employees and the economy must now be implemented quickly!