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IG Metall wants to secure industrial jobs by giving preference to companies bound by collective agreements. This is the wrong approach.

Salaries in the mechanical engineering sector are already at a very high level. The pilot wage agreement in the metal and electrical industry will therefore push many companies to their limits.

Current VDMA survey: Only 30 percent of the companies surveyed are bound by collective agreements. Companies not bound by collective agreements see too little scope for company solutions and a lack of flexibility in collective agreements.

Good salaries are paid in mechanical engineering - even in companies without collective bargaining agreements. A collective bargaining law would only be another unnecessary burden.

IG Metall's wage demands - in particular a 7 percent wage increase - are inappropriate in view of the tense economic situation.