Any new talks with the employers' union would have to be based on IG Metall's original 6.5% demand, Mr Zwickel said.
The new boss has his work cut out: IG Metall remains deeply divided and its power is waning, with membership continuing to fall.
Faced with losing thousands of jobs to the current Airbus reorganization, IG Metall is hoping EADS aircraft will start winning large DoD contracts.
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In March 2013 IG Metall President Berthold Huber dispatched a letter addressed to the VW Tennessee workers, urging them to accept a UAW presence.
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Germany's most powerful labor union, IG Metall, accused Siemens in April of funding rival union AUB between 1992 and 2005, while von Pierer was CEO.
The German socialist IG Metall union represents workers at Airbus Deutschland.
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Crisis or no, Germany still clings to that consensus and its largest union, IG Metall, was unrestrained in its barracking and haranguing of the chancellor at a rally recently.
The union, Britain's second biggest, has said it will ask the giant German trade union, IG Metall, to raise the issue of UK workers' pensions with Deutsche Telekom's supervisory board.
Pay settlements of 3% -plus demanded by powerful German industrial trades unions, principally the engineering union IG Metall, are a huge new threat to stable prices in the principal anti-inflation European economy.
That Cerberus was able to garner support from the three unions represented on the DaimlerChrylser board -- the Canadian Auto Worker's Union, Germany's IG Metall, and the UAW -- is a marked achievement.
In 2011, UAW head Bob King met with leaders of IG Metall, a large umbrella union which represents Volkswagen workers in Germany, to secure their support in his efforts to unionize the Tennessee Volkswagen plant.
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