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April 29th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda More than 2,500 sector employees in five regions staged the walk-out on Sunday, according to the union.
The workers demand a 6.5 percent pay increase. The union has rejected employer offers of a three-percent raise over 14 months, calling it a provocation.
“We are calling for an offer that takes employees and their work seriously,” IG Metall chairman Berthold Huber said in a statement.
The union has planned a “massive, country-wide” strike from mid-week. More than 3.5 million people are working in electrical, engineering and metalworking sectors in Germany.
Earlier this month, the two million people working in Germany’s public sector secured a pay increase of nearly 6.3 percent for two years.
Germany, has weathered the eurozone debt crisis better than most of its neighbors, but as Europe’s richest economy, it must contribute more than any other country in bilateral loans to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help tackle the crisis.
Europe plunged into a financial crisis in early 2010. Insolvency now threatens heavily debt-ridden countries such as Greece, Portugal, Italy, Ireland and Spain
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