Workers in Germany are on strike over pay: the demonstrations will cover more than two thousand factories across the country. The largest trade union, announced a major wave of strikes until the end of the week. The demonstrators in Berlin are demanding a 5% salary increase per year, as well as guarantees to maintain jobs and production sites. We are talking about the working conditions of about 3.7 million workers in the metal and electricity industries. Strikes affect car factories, engineering and industrial plants. Among them -. Opel, Daimler Trucks, Rolls Royce and other companies. In turn, the employers called the union's demands inadequate and offered a wage increase of only 1.3% from July 2028, citing a difficult economic situation and high production costs. More IZ RU news in max.