IG Metall is pushing for a four-day week
Germany’s most powerful union thinks metal-bashers deserve a three-day weekly rest
A RECESSION IS not a good time to ask your boss for a pay rise. So IG Metall, Germany’s biggest trade union, is mulling other perks its metal-bashing members might extract from employers. On August 15th its boss, Jörg Hofmann, told the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper he would push for firms to adopt a four-day working week.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Weekend plans”
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