Agreement in dispute
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) STUTTGART, Dec. 12. West Germany’s 19-day-old metal industry pay dispute may have been resolved;* union and management negotiators have agreed to a 7.5 per cent wage increase next year. However, the stoppages will continue for a few days yet, as the package will have to be put to a rank-and-file vote of I.G. Metall (union) members. The dispute, the reprecussions of which affected the Netherlands and Belgium, had' closed down almost the en-; tire West German car industry. Although the stoppages directly involved were limited to the south-western state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Employers, in reprisal for the original strike by 120,000 workers, locked out almost three times as many men again, to bring the total idle to nearly half a million. Hundreds of thousands more, not involved in the dispute, were thrown out of work elsewhere.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32788, 13 December 1971, Page 19
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