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Cologne - for Ford and other metal processing plants in Cologne, burns the tree. The metal in the Eleventh Plan for the Eleventh a strike ballot. They want more money. Eight percent. Otherwise, there are strikes.
Thursday night. Others lie in the warm bed. Not the Ford Nachtschichtler. Shortly after four, they dropped pencil, hammer and screwdriver. For outside the halls of music suddenly sounds from the speakers. Hard rock of AC / DC: "Hells Bells" ( "Hell is ringing the bell"). From all sides the night shift workers flock to the street work, colleagues, give them torches and set them on fire.
"We are the workers."
The march of several thousand torchbearers goes to the "gyro", a meeting point at the plant in Niehl. Many men raise the red flags IGM. It is emblazoned the Ford plum in the murky November night.
"8 percent" written on the flags. One cries: "The managers get 7.75 percent more. They do not even offer us 1.5 percent. "Then enter Dieter Hinkelmann, the Ford council chairman, the podium. He shouts: "The era of the previous maintenance is over."
Thunderous applause. The union incites especially against the managers, who are now "would hide behind the effects of the financial crisis."
Two hours the demonstration. And the workers at Ford, clearly showed their willingness to go after many years of quiet back to the barricades.
Dieter Kolsch, Cologne's IG Metall trade secretary on Thursday EXPRESS: "The willingness to strike is greater than ever. The Leittragenden the financial crisis are the little people pay towards the cost of bank restructuring through their taxes. "This was particularly felt at Ford of recession, nothing. The production of new Fiesta is busy. Kolsch: "We need to stimulate domestic demand. That's only possible with higher wages. "
Middle of next week aims to drum IGM 27,000 members in Cologne and Leverkusen to the polls. Ballot on the strike. Employers reject the high wage demands. A few days is still being negotiated. Until the eleventh in the Eleventh ...
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