By any standards, Ver.di’s Congress is enormous. Well over 1,000 delegates, representing nurses, postal workers, teachers and many others from all over Germany gathered on Sunday (17 September) in Berlin to set their policy for the coming four-year period. I attended as the guest of journalists organised within this general union of 1.9 million, whose Congress is surely among the largest democratic gatherings in Europe? It is certainly the biggest I have ever attended.
Without a major shift, Germany’s labour force will shrink dramatically in the coming years, undermining economic growth, boosting inflation pressures and posing especially tough challenges to the manufacturing firms.
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