IG Metall calls on employees to go on warning strike at SRW scrap and recycling plant

In the fight for a collective agreement at the scrap and recycling company SRW in Rötha (district of Leipzig), the IG Metall has again called the 180 employees to a warning strike. Since March 2023, the employees demanded eight percent more pay, an increase in vacation pay and Christmas bonuses to 1,500 euros each and a reduction in weekly working hours to 38 hours, according to the union. In the now fifth warning strike, work is to be put down on Thursday from 12:00 to 16:00, it said.

"Due to the blocking attitude of the employer, we are preparing a ballot in the next few days. The colleagues do not shrink from an indefinite enforcement strike," explained Michael Hecker, negotiator of IG Metall Leipzig. The employees at SRW earned about 600 euros less per month than workers in comparable companies in the scrap and recycling industry.