To prevent the impending sellout, all public sector workers must break free of the control of Verdi and the other unions and build independent rank-and-file committees.
In the current contract bargaining round in the metal and electrical industries, the IG Metall is seeking to organise a sellout and suppress any critical voices.
Some 3.8 million workers in Germany are to be fobbed off with a one-time special “inflation premium” of 3,000 euros, with no pay increase for the next 30 months.
As was the case at the beginning of World War I, when the trade unions entered into a truce with the imperial government and the employers' associations, they are once again closing ranks with them.