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Sindelfingen (AP) – Tough fight for an agreement in the metalworking and electrical industry: Even after hours of deliberations by IG Metall and Südwestmetall was late on Tuesday evening still unclear whether a strike in the key sector is to avert yet

as sticking points in the fifth round of the pilot district of Baden-Wuerttemberg proved the requirements of the IG Metall for permanent adoption of the educated and more participation of councils in the use of temporary workers.

Employers feel threatened by these concerns in their entrepreneurial freedom curtailed too much and insist on the preservation of flexibility instruments. In the early hours of Wednesday should not be decided whether further discussions are useful.

negotiations, of which 3.6 million people are affected nationwide, were conducted in different compositions: After about two hours of collective deliberation on Tuesday afternoon, the other two camps to return separate meetings. It is agreed Südwestmetall chief Rainer Dulger from the tip of the Association of total metal, including association president Martin Kannegiesser . The total metal board holds its regular meeting on this Wednesday in Stuttgart.

After the internal

meeting came the negotiating teams back together to talk in small groups. Make informed IG Metall district director Joerg Hofmann, the background with Commission officials, shop stewards and works councils on the progress of discussions.

Their recommendations are based

a joint expert committee of union and southwestern metal to the qualitative issues. The fee issue is addressed only after a breakthrough on these issues. The union is calling for 6.5 percent more money and insists on demand solutions for all three elements. The employer has so far at three per cent more pay for 14 months.

Before the talks had prompted the union to make concessions Dulger: “There will be a question of whether the IG Metall trade union moved into its basic positions.” Hofmann also demanded substantial progress with the quality issues. In the talks will now consider whether the expert committee had “reliable bridges” found, he added.

IG Metall argued to have come to meet with their exceptional opportunities for the trainee’s acquisition employers already. This will boost young people are given permanent jobs in the rule. But with economic difficulties of the company, in need of education and people-related problems could be deviated from.

Employers want to ensure

Although young professionals to lean so far but from any kind of coercion – the former taking over after teaching for twelve months ahead. Employers have reportedly particularly a problem with regulations that currently apply to the might young people in training as well. This had already been decided for the company’s collective agreement specified consequences that they had not yet the time of recruitment of apprentices need not apply. Dulger stressed that the company might offer to a degree not less apprenticeships and flexible ways to use less than today.

The union wants the curb in their view, sprawling agency, by the increasingly common workers were displaced. In addition, trained would not become permanent, but set back as a temp in the same company, a spokesman for the IG Metall union at a small gathering in front of the reported local negotiation. In the discussions it is also important according to participants, whether temporary workers are fixed after a certain time.

Baden-Wuerttemberg on Tuesday was the focus of nationwide strikes with about 23 600 participants from 133 companies and metal workers. Nationwide, some 53 000 employees from about 290 companies involved in temporary work stoppages. Since the end of the peace obligation, IG Metall has a total of more than 750 000 end warning strike.

Hofmann said that if there were steps in the right direction would be on 22 May – also in Sindelfingen – further negotiations. If no breakthrough is in sight, on Wednesday will be the Great Commission of the tariff, IG Metall, the supreme decision making body of the union, probably vote on a ballot for industrial action. This could begin in the Whitsun holidays.