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Warning Strikes Hit German Industry as IG Metall Demands 5 Percent Pay Rise 2026-11-01 [upday]

IG Metall launches warning strikes in Germany 2026-11-01 [Der Spiegel]

Volkswagen Confirms 12,000 Additional Job Cuts as Union Sets January Strike Deadline 2026-10-26 [Ad Hoc News]

Volkswagen workers threaten strikes as carmaker scraps labour deals 2026-10-24 [Signal]

EU lawmakers to visit Amazon warehouses in Germany and Poland after years-long standoff 2026-10-21 [UNI Europa]

Port union accepts wage offer, indefinite strikes averted 2026-10-06 [Container News]

BWI welcomes new IG BAU leadership 2026-10-05 [BWI]

VW Just Made One Of Europe's Biggest Labor Unions Very Angry 2026-10-04 [Car Buzz]

IndustriAll Europe condemns VW management’s attack on workers and social partnership 2026-10-02 [IndustriAll Europe]

Strikes on the table as Volkswagen terminates union wage deals 2026-10-01 [Reuters]

Angry VW union to ratchet up dispute after labour deals cut short 2026-10-01 [Reuters]

Victory for media pluralism as DW reversed decision to abolish Greek-language service 2026-09-25 [IFJ]

Car unions defend 35-hour week amid restructuring 2026-09-25 [Streamline]

Unions are fighting to defend the 35-hour week 2026-09-25 [The Economist]

175,000 German autoworkers demand a future, not cutbacks 2026-09-23 [IndustriALL]

UNI affiliate IG Bau signs landmark charter to improve lives of 700,000 cleaners in Germany 2026-09-23 [UNI Global Union]

Rebels, workers, radicals: The making of 'Red Berlin' 2026-09-19 [Deutsche Welle]

Port Workers Reject Contract and Move To Strike Vote 2026-09-17 [Maritime Executive]

IG Metall action day 21 September 2026-09-17 [IndustriALL]

Port wage dispute moves towards indefinite strike vote 2026-09-16 [World Cargo News]

“Hands off our welfare state”: UNI Europa backs German unions’ nationwide day of action 2026-09-15 [UNI Europa]

Fau supports Zapatista-driven hospital in Mexico 2026-09-07 [ICL]

Press freedom at stake in upcoming Saxony-Anhalt elections 2026-09-07 [EFJ]

Volkswagen to cut 100,000 jobs by the end of the decade 2026-09-07 [Deutsche Welle]

Port strikes hit Europe as schedule reliability drops to single digits 2026-09-04 [Journal of Commerce]

Women deserve more 2026-08-27 [IG Metall]

Stress-Related Sick Leave Jumps 80% in Eight Years — and Young Workers Are the Most Anxious 2026-08-03 [Ad Hoc News]

Summer Job Rush Begins in Germany — But Not All Teenagers Get the Minimum Wage 2026-07-30 [Ad Hoc News]

EPSU stands in solidarity after Berlin Pride attack 2026-07-28 [EPSU]

Retail Workers Walk Out: Inside Germany’s Escalating Pay Fight and the Legal Rules That Shape It 2026-07-22 [Ad Hoc News]

Strikes Disrupt Waste Collections in Germany and Spain as Retail Workers Join Protests 2026-07-19 [Ad Hoc News]

2027 Labour Shake-up: Longer Temporary Contracts and Tax-Linked Severance for Job-Switchers 2026-07-12 [Ad Hoc News]

Union warns of 'conflict' as Volkswagen eyes mass job cuts 2026-07-10 [The Straits Times]

The government is threatening freedom of information 2026-07-10 [EFJ]

Mercedes-Benz Opens AI Chapter with HCLTech as 33,000 Workers Strike and Shares Bounce 2026-07-05 [Ad Hoc News]

Sick-Note Battle Splits Generations as Experts Warn of Higher Absenteeism 2026-07-05 [Ad Hoc News]

Retail Workers Stage Third Day of Strikes as ver.di Escalates Pay Dispute 2026-07-04 [Ad Hoc News]

Retail Strike Hits Major Chains as Wage Talks Stall – Union Demands 7%, Employers Offer 4.4% Over Two Years 2026-07-03 [Ad Hoc News]

Retail, Food Workers Set for Coordinated Strike Wave as Wage Talks Sour 2026-07-03 [Ad Hoc News]

Union members stage nationwide strike in Berlin 2026-07-03 [Reuters]

Thousands of German retail workers to strike amid pay dispute 2026-07-03 [Anadolu Ajansı]

Escalating Strikes Disrupt Germany’s Trade Sector. Labor Unions Step Up the Wage Battle 2026-07-03 [The Voice]

Fatal attack in Stade underlines need to protect public service workers 2026-07-03 [EPSU]

ETF railway affiliates visit DAC testing facility in Berlin 2026-07-03 [ETF]

Strike at Germany's Postbank averted as unions agree pay deal 2026-07-02 [DPA]

Germany Raised Its Minimum Wage. For Migrant Workers, Enforcement Is the Real Test. For more info 2026-07-02 [The Labour Pulse]

Part-Time Retirement Threshold to 58 as Shrinking Workforce Forces Policy Shift 2026-06-28 [Ad Hoc News]

€65 Billion Collective Bargaining Gap Fuels Political Standoff Over EU Wage Rules 2026-06-27 [Ad Hoc News]

Retail Workers Walk Off the Job as Survey Finds 73% Struggle to Cover Basic Needs 2026-06-27 [Ad Hoc News]

Union's Internal Crisis: 9 of 28 Female Trainees Quit as IGBCE Confronts Systemic Sexism Claims 2026-06-23 [Ad Hoc News]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

3-11-1918 Sailors on the German High Seas Fleet in Kiel mutiny, raising the slogan "Peace and Bread." This starts the German revolution which will overthrow the Kaiser and hasten the end of the First World War. [more]

5-11-1918 General strike in Kiel, the next day in Hamburg, leading to an uprising led by the Workers‘ and Soldiers’ Councils movement. [more]

9-11-1918 The German Republic and the Free Socialist Republic of Germany are proclaimed, two hours apart, by Scheidemann (SPD: Social Democratic Party of Germany) and Liebknecht (Spartacist League). [more]

28-11-1820 Friedrich Engels is born in Wuppertal, Germany. He will become the most famous collaborator of Karl Marx. [more]