Ig Metal Head: "Then There Really Is a Riot

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Trade union leader Christiane Benner accuses the German boss of unplannedness. In the interview, she warns that increasingly younger workers will be affected by the company's austerity programs.

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Christiane Benner, head of the IG Metall union, criticizes the increasing job losses in Germany, particularly in the automotive sector. She emphasizes that younger employees are also affected and that early retirement schemes do not offer them a solution.

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Christiane Benner, head of the IG Metall union, is concerned about industrial jobs in Germany. "Some employees are still receiving generous severance packages, but we are threatened with many more layoffs in the future," she told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. The figures speak for themselves: "We have lost hundreds of thousands of industrial jobs in the last five years, 50,000 in the automotive sector alone within a single year." A…