Jan Otto, President of IG Metall Berlin, began the annual report by talking about stable membership figures in Berlin and the next year´s campaign on topics including industrial policy, housing and family. Empowering trainees and young people and building democracy are also on the agenda. Sophie Jänicke, collective bargaining secretary of the IG Metall BBS district, took a look at the current bargaining round for metal and electrical workers with the delegates. The second collective bargaining round for the Berlin-Brandenburg collective bargaining region is scheduled for September 18. And from October 29 at midnight, warning strikes are likely, as the employers have so far blocked any progress. Philipp Singer, vice president of IG Metall Berlin, emphasized that Berlin is very well positioned and that preparations are going very well. Jan Otto also underlined: “We have never been so well prepared!”

A successful StarterCamp, many trainees joining the union, the JAV elections and new concepts were the subject of the report by Jakob Heidenreich, Youth Secretary in Berlin.

The approval of the actions of the presidents and the local council was followed by the election of Lea Raddatz, shop steward at the BMW motorcycle plant in Spandau. Lea Raddatz was not present as she was attending the confidants´ conference in Frankfurt. She was unanimously elected to the local committee. The election had become necessary because a colleague had resigned from the local committee for professional reasons. Philipp Thiel, Mercedes-Benz Berlin subsidiary, was unanimously elected as a new member of the collective bargaining committee for the automotive craft sector.

The session continued with the lively topic “The future of our pension and IG Metall's concept for pensions”. Günter Triebe and Özge Karabulut from the OJA showed with a sketch that the topic is anything but dry. Sabine Kördel gave a brief introduction to the German three-pillar pension model.
Astrid Diebitsch and Dorothea Lay from the senior citizens' working group (SAK) used display walls to introduce “IG Metall's pension concept” and “Terms from the public pension”. There were active discussions in two large groups about the topics on the posters.

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