Word: sindelfingen
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...earn more.") But, as a practical matter, the 35-hour week now seems to have little sway over many large employers. Workers in Germany are fighting a tide of proposed deals involving threats to export jobs. When DaimlerChrysler said it would move 6,000 jobs from a factory at Sindelfingen, near Stuttgart, to plants in northern Germany and South Africa unless workers agreed to wage concessions, it wasn't bluffing. So autoworkers' union IG Metall agreed to give up a 2.8% pay rise in 2006 in exchange for a job guarantee until 2012. The company's 15,000 research...
...percent of the vote in a national election in March, enough to put them in the German national parliament, the Bundestag. More significantly, members have turned some of the romantic parts of their party platform into clearer, although still hazy, proposals. Three weeks ago, in a party caucus at Sindelfingen, the Greens drew up a manifesto calling for banks and factories to be converted from private to "other modes" of ownership. Other proposals include a shorter workweek to decrease Germany's 9.5 percent unemployment rate and adoption of a long-term goal of domestic economic self-sufficiency. Public uncertainty...
...Sindelfingen, West Germany...
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