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BERLIN (AP) - A third round of wage talks for German industrial workers ended Monday with no result, and the country's biggest industrial union threatened a round of warning walkouts later this week.
"The employers have not used" their chance, said Hartwig Oertel, spokesman for the IG Metall union. Talks in five separate German regions brought no progress — paving the way for so-called "warning strikes" starting Wednesday before negotiations resume in the coming weeks.
The union is pressing for a 5 percent pay increase across the country in a one-year contract. In all, the talks affect some 3.4 million manufacturing workers in Germany, Europe's biggest economy.
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