During Musk’s visit Friday, Tesla executives informed workers that the company would raise wages by 4% effective in November for the around 11,000 employees at the German plant, people familiar with the matter said. Tesla will also pay a 1,500 euro bonus in December to offset inflation. Starting in February, Tesla will raise annual wages by an additional 2,500 euros for workers in production.
The wage increases follow heightened tension between Tesla and IG Metall, Germany’s largest labor union, and a separate confrontation with Tesla service center workers in Sweden.
That is sadly really common in Germany.
At least some of the Unions are just too soft here.
IG Metall is actually doing a good job. Basicly the pay is about the best in the world for companies they are actually organized in. If it would be Verdi it would be differnent, but IG Metall gets stuff done.
Lets hope they get the four day workweek for steelworkers as well.
Most of the unions are too soft here. Might be related to reaching a compromise being a national sport in Germany, so they will compromise on virtually anything just for the sake of reaching a compromise. Also, the legal framework doesn’t give unions very much power to begin with.