IG Metall cements wage differentials between east and west German workers
Last week and without a murmur, the IG Metall union ended its contract negotiations in the east German metal and electrical industry, thereby cementing the long standing wage differential between workers in the old East and West Germany. More than three decades after the capitalist reunification of Germany, the union has once again postponed wage parity for workers until the indeterminate future.
In the eastern and western German metal and electrical industries, workers carrying out the same work continue to be paid unequally. A 38-hour standard working week applies in the east, a 35-hour week in the west. Meanwhile, east German metalworkers receive 8.5 percent less pay. IG Metall has maintained this gulf between wages for three decades and workers’ anger over this inequality has increased considerably during the COVID-19 pandemic with its attendant hardships.
3rd Shift Coming To VW Zwickau To Produce 1,400 IDs Daily From Summer On ++ With the third shift scheduled for April, the new daily target for the Summer 2021 is over 1,400 BEVs.
After the recent good news about the production rate exceeding 800 ID.3 and ID.4 electric cars in the Zwickau plant, the Volkswagen Sachsen hinted at the next daily target.
The company intends to add a third shift at the assembly hall, which should allow it to gradually increase the daily output to more than 1,400 ID.3/ID.4 around Summer! GOOD NEWS: In April, the 3rd shift at 2. assembly hall will start at #VW in #Zwickau. Target in summer: More than 1,400 #VWID3 & #VWID4 daily! And four more models like the #VWID5 and #CupraBorn are already in the pipeline. . . look forward to!
Series Production Of VW ID. 3 Begins At Dresden Factory
The Transparent Factory is already the fourth site in the world producing Volkswagen electric cars based on the Modular Electric Drive Toolkit.
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There are currently 380 employees working at Volkswagens Dresden site.
The Transparent Factory in Dresden began series production of the fully electric ID.3. This makes it the second production site for the ID.3 and already the fourth site in the world producing Volkswagen models based on the Modular Electric Drive Toolkit (MEB).
Thomas Ulbrich, Member of the Board of Management for Electric Mobility at Volkswagen, said, “Volkswagen is continuing to pursue its electric offensive. In addition to new electric models, this also includes the transformation of the global production network. At Dresden we are already converting the fourth Volkswagen site to the new ID. family and the MEB. At the same time we are ramping up volume production in the Zwickau electric car plan