EADS, presumably in an effort to protect as many of Airbus's 29, 000 German workers as possible.
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German workers are pushing for higher pay too, after a long period of wage restraint.
In return German workers will receive tax incentives to make up the shortfall by investing in private pension assets.
All the more reason for Mr Pischetsrieder to urge his German workers to opt for jobs rather than money.
Once out of work, German workers have little incentive to seek new jobs: jobless benefits are over-generous and income-tax rates are far too high.
For the majority of German workers, companies' growing willingness to shift production to wherever labour and capital costs are cheapest is a direct threat to their jobs.
However, some economists argue that a higher inflation rate is actually exactly what is needed in the eurozone, in order to help Italian and other workers regain their competitive advantage against German workers.
With Gehry, we get to wave adieu to what Tom Wolfe memorably called the "Rue De Regret" of International Style German workers' cubes and replace our yawns with a little shock and awe.
In fact, the only thing that separated the two main branches of 20th-century totalitarianism was that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was born of an international movement while the National Socialist German Workers Party was explicitly nationalist.
German shipyard workers have railed against Brussels for blocking state subsidies, even though their government fully supports Europe's competition laws.
This has not, however, stopped many German companies from shedding workers by the thousand, at home and abroad, as they restructure in response to globalisation.
According to Marxist eschatology, French workers and their German counterparts should have joined forces to annihilate the bourgeois.
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Although German companies still pay their workers at home a good wage, that is little consolation to the unskilled who see their jobs migrating abroad.
Public unease has been heightened recently by several high-profile battles between the managers of some big German firms and unions and workers' representatives over cost-cutting plans.
On the scene were forty Kurdish workers, twenty German and Turkish archeology students, and an official from the Izmir museum of archeology, who had been appointed by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism to keep tabs on progress and to insure that the ruins were being made accessible to the two hundred or so tourists who turned up every day.
Online retailer Amazon has ended the contract of a security firm employed at one of its German warehouses, following complaints about workers' conditions.
The German socialist IG Metall union represents workers at Airbus Deutschland.
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Deutsche Annington, like many of its rivals, is a relatively young company with old roots: It was formed in 2001 when Terra Nova bought a huge portfolio of decades-old workers' flats from German Federal Railways.
And though our workers have caught up with German levels of productivity, the gap with America and France has scarcely budged.
French salaries have increased in real terms while German salaries have fallen, making French workers more expensive and thus less productive and competitive.
The German Unemployment Change figures showed that 20K workers fell off the registry of the unemployed during June and the overall Euro zone Economic Sentiment Index improved to a reading of 101.3.
Many German economists find it scandalous that full-time workers can still be poor.
And skills shortages are already creating opportunities: in the past year or two a dearth of German engineers has caused companies to bring back older workers.
As one might expect, much of the increase is concentrated in German service jobs, and is accounted for by workers who put in fewer than 14 hours a week.
Workers work and pay taxes and pay into the German retirement system until they are 67.
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In a small way, the measures to cut German welfare benefits may help if they encourage more non-workers into the labour force and boost consumers' spending power.
The German press is reporting rumours of plans to sack 6, 600 workers and shut five factories in Germany, which Airbus denies.
Skilled workers in these "Gartenzwergmanufacturs" (zwerg being the German for "dwarf") moulded 3ft (1m) tall figures in terracotta and ceramic mixes, with carefully detailed and hand-painted features.
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