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    Vol.63/No.6           February 15, 1999 
 
 
Germany: metalworkers hold protest strike  
Some 200,000 metalworkers across Germany participated in brief strikes January 29, double the number the union officials had expected. The job action affected companies in 13 of 16 German states. The strikes, which lasted up to one day, are intended to serve warning to the employers' association, which is refusing the union's demand for a 6.5 percent wage increase. If negotiations do not progress, the union projects full strike action March 1.

 
 
 
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