{"id":10013,"date":"2021-04-03T02:57:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T06:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=10013"},"modified":"2021-04-03T02:58:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T06:58:23","slug":"a-raise-or-a-four-day-week-biggest-german-union-seals-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=10013","title":{"rendered":"A raise or a four-day week; biggest German union seals new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Germany’s largest trade union, IG Metall, agreed a 2.3% wage increase, to be paid either in full or as part of a switch to a four-day week, in a key industrial region, setting the benchmark for 3.9 million metal and engineering workers nationwide.<\/p>\n

Source: A raise or a four-day week; biggest German union seals new deal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Which circles back to my nenver-answered or ‘figured out question: “Why 40 hours\/week?<\/a>”\u00a0 That might have been the balance we had to set to achieve the remarkable growth since the Industril Revoution (with all that & our era’s trading growth for long-term planning.<\/p>\n

If the lack of real wage growth has not followed productivity gains, as some hve suggested, the workers are overdue where working 32 hours\/week for the same amount they got paid pre-this-implentation.<\/p>\n

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