Adidas faces union backlash over wage dispute in Germany
Adidas is under pressure from the IG BCE trade union due to its pay demands for German employees. The company has exited the industry's collective bargaining agreement and proposed its own wage deal. Union leaders have deemed this proposal inadequate and are threatening further action.
The dispute started when Adidas withdrew from the sector-wide collective bargaining system. The IG BCE union then sought company-level negotiations, asking for a 7% pay rise and an extra day off for its members.
Adidas responded by offering a wage increase of 0.5 percentage points above the industry's recent agreement. It also proposed a one-time payment of €450, spread over four months, for around 4,600 previously union-covered employees in Germany. However, the union dismissed this as insufficient.
IG BCE has set a deadline of 24 November for Adidas to improve its offer. If no agreement is reached by then, the union has warned of potential strike action.
Adidas has less than a month to address the union's concerns. Should talks fail, industrial action could disrupt operations. The outcome will determine pay and conditions for thousands of workers across the company's German sites.
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