Klappentext: Streiks sind Kristallisationspunkte gewerkschaftlichen Handelns, Konflikte zwischen Beschäftigten und Unternehmern werden zugespitzt. Aber Streik war und ist nicht gleich Streik. Der Entschluss, die Arbeit niederzulegen, erfordert Mut und begleitende Aktionen, um Aufmerksamkeit zu...

Over the last ten years, Germany has been the country that has displayed the greatest degree of restraint in collective bargaining. Few other OECD countries have had such a modest increase in unit labour costs and few have lived below their means to the same extent in terms of wage policy. While...

In Germany the 2000s proved to be a decade of moderate increases in collectively-agreed minimum pay. Agreed pay in real terms rose by 6.7% over the whole period. However, by 2010 real actual earnings had fallen by 4% over the decade and were down to 96% of their 2000 level. As a consequence, the...