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As many as 3,000 workers formed a massive human chain in Nuremberg on Thursday #Bravo, to express anger over the announcement from several companies including as Daimler, Bosch, Siemens, MAN and Continental, to axe hundreds of thousands of jobs across Germany. Workers joined protest which had been called by the country's largest metalworkers' union, IG Metall, in the heart of Nuremberg's Sudstadt, where many of the industrial companies are based. "From this you can also see how great the concern is and how great the will is to fight against it," IG Metall Nuremberg authorised representative Andreas Weidemann stated. "The employers often justify this with corona, but the strategy behind it is often to relocate jobs to low-wage countries in order to earn more money and we as IG Metall will not accept that," Weidemann added. 400,000 jobs in Germany and 4,000 jobs alone in Nuremberg would be affected by this decision. Known as a major trend-setter in national bargaining, IG Metall is already "preparing for the collective bargaining round" in Nuremberg, as Weidemann said. "Because we would like to talk to employers about employment security measures in the collective bargaining round, and that is the first powerful signal here today," he stressed. IG Metall staff were seen distributing masks and bands to comply with physical distance measures during the epidemic.
