Day of Work: Trade Unions Criticise Government Plans

This year's central DGB rally took place in Chemnitz on May 1st. DGB Federal Chairman Yasmin Fahimi gave the workers' representatives.

Trade unions and other organisations will demonstrate nationwide for workers' rights on May 1st. There is criticism of plans of the future government for working time - very clearly from the DGB chairman Fahimi.

Germany is in economic crisis. The trade union takes the initiative of the employers - and makes several announcements to the government of a chancellor Merz on 1 May.

At the rally of the trade unions on the day of work, more than 300 people travelled from Berlin's square through the city centre of Bottrop to the Gambrinus stage on Gladbecker Straße. On stage, Suzann Dräther, the DGB chairman of Bottrop, assured the demonstrators: "We will defend the achievements of the welfare state". She gave a clear rejection to the ever-new efforts after a social reduction. "Make yourself strong with us!" was the motto of …

Finnbjörn A. Hermannsson, president of the Icelandic Confederation of Trade Unions, says that the government's decisions and responses to the coronavirus pandemic must be brought to justice. Wage earners have kept society going, but the government has ensured that exorbitant amounts of money have flowed from the state treasury to capitalists and companies. This is stated in Finnbjörn's address, which he published on the ASÍ website yesterday, Ma…

For this year's events on 1 May, the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) Leipzig-Nordsachsen had called for a demonstration from the Volkshaus in Karl-Liebknecht-Straße to the market square and a bicycle corso from the Sachsenbrücke to the market square. From 10.00 o'clock the square in front of the Volkshaus increasingly filled and we asked the managing director of the DGB Leipzig-Nordsachsen, Manuela Grimm, for a brief [...] Die Beitrag 1 M…